April 12, 2024
Easton Press: ERNEST HEMINGWAY: GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA: HUNTING SAFARI
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Easton Press leather edition of Ernest Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Introduction by PATRICK HEMINGWAY, Illustrated by Edward Shenton, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY series, published in 1990. Bound in brown leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, was an American novelist and short story writer and winner of the 1954 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE. In 1929, Hemingway divorced his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and married PAULINE PFEIFFER, a rich Arkansas heiress, and this marriage lasted until 1940. "Green Hills of Africa" was originally published in 1935 and is an account of a month on safari with his Arkansas wife, PAULINE PFEIFFER, that he took in East Africa in 1933. The safari was financed by Pauline's "Uncle Gus Pfeiffer," who had bought the couple the Key West house and a car. In gratitude, Ernest had dedicated "A Farewell to Arms" to Gus Pfeiffer. Much of the narrative Hemingway describes in interspersed with ruminations about literature, particularly Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, and Stendhal. He also has flashbacks of hunting in northern Tanzania. The narrator kills a kudu with large horns but is jealous
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