April 12, 2024
Easton Press: The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Ernest Hemingway: Francis Macomber
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Easton Press leather edition of Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Illustrated by Richard Powers, Introduction by A.E. Hotchner, a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the COMPLETE WORKS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY series, published in 1990. Bound in brown leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, was an American novelist, short story writer and winner of the 1954 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE. Hemingway grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of a doctor. He married Hadley Richardson of St. Louis, and the couple were living in PARIS when PAULINE PFEIFFER, an Arkansas heiress came to France to write for Vogue magazine. Ernest divorced Hadley and married Pauline and they became parents to two sons. Pauline's family owned 65,000 acres of rich Arkansas farmland. Her Uncle Gus Pfeiffer financed the first African Safari and also purchased the house in Key West. Hemingway divorced Pauline in 1940---after a most bitter civil trial--- and later married Martha Gellhorn and Mary Walsh. In the "Introduction," Hotchner quotes Hemingway: "I wrote "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" upstairs here in Key West. It was April 1934, Pauline and I had just come back from Africa . . .never wrote so directly about myself as in
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