Signed book: The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover, 6 x 8.5, 597 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page, “To Charles Haskell with very best wishes always, Ernest Hemingway.” Autographic condition: very good to fine, with scattered toning to signed page, not affecting the bold signature and inscription. Book condition: G+/None. Red cloth-covered boards; heavy wear and soiling to exterior, with large waterstained block and drip marks along front; spine sunned; front hinge split, with cover very loose and cloth over spine detaching; rear hinge cracked; textblock edges and feps yellowed and lightly foxed. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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