Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932



8vo (9 x 6 1/4 ins; 230 x 160 mm). Color frontispiece by Juan Gris and over 60 pages of photographs of the bull ring by Vandel or Rodero. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth in pictorial dust-jacket; very faint spotting to endleaves, jacket spine panel a little rubbed and faded, minor creasing to top edge and one small chip at top inner corner of front panel. Half brown morocco, gilt folding box.

very faint spotting to endleaves, jacket spine panel a little rubbed and faded, minor creasing to top edge and one small chip at top inner corner of front panel. Half brown morocco, gilt folding box.
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First edition, signed by Hemingway enjoying a Montana fall, 🌸 "Ernest Hemingway / Cooke, Montana / September 1932."

Hemingway rented a cabin at the nearby L-Bar-T Ranch in Wyoming for much of theꦛ 1930s, frequently visiting the area to enjoy the hunting and fishing. September was potentially a particularly relaxing time of year for the autho♓r as it is prime season for shooting and casting to rising trout. As he wrote in a famed eulogy for a friend, "Best of all he loved the fall ... the fall with the tawny and grey, the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods, leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills the high blue windless skies."