Hemingway, Ernest

Across the River and Into the Trees

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. 308p. Publishers original cloth with a clean dust jacket in an archival cover. First American edition with A on the copyright page of Hemingway's acclaimed first novel since For Whole the Bell Tolls housed in a handsome custom clamshell box. The title was taken from the last words of Stonewall Jackson as he lay mortally wounded and delirious in the Chancellorsville campaign: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees". The English edition preceded the American edition by three days. Just one small nick at the top edge of the dust jacket. Item #10214

Price: $950.00