Large page proof of Hemingway's prose-poem "Part Two of The Soul of Spain with McAlmon and Bird the Publishers," one page, 9.5 x 11.5, circa 1924, signed and inscribed at the top in ink, "For Estelle, very useful guide book to the Peninsula, Ernest Hemingway." Written as a contribution to the controversial German literary journal Der Querschnitt, Hemingway discusses Spanish culture ("There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning") and bullfighting ("They run round in circles with the capes and the bull whirls round and round and then goes down and folds his knees under and his tongue sticks out and the sword sticks out dully the hilt and the banderillos stick out sharply at angles…Women love to see the puntillo used. It is exactly like turning off an electric light bulb"). In very good to fine condition, with some light creasing, rippling to the edges, and fading to the handwriting.
Der Querschnitt(The Cross Section) was founded in 1920 and its Paris editor purchased five of Hemingway's poems to be published in 1924. The following year they published his classic short story 'The Undefeated.' In Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway recounts Kandinsky asking if he is the same Hemingway whose 'rather obscene' poems he had recently read inDer Querschnitt. The recipient, "Estelle, "may be Alma Estelle Lloyd, a concert pianist who lived in Paris in 1920s and loaned Hemingway money to have In Our Time printed at the Three Mountain Press.
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