The Green Hills of Africa. New York: Scribner's, 1935



8vo (8 1/4 x 5 /12 ins; 210 x 142 mm). Publisher's gilt-titled green cloth in illustrated dust-jacket; jacket spine panel only very faintly faded, some creasing and rubbing along top edge and front flap fold, scattered staining to rear panel, more so to verso. Full black calf folding case with embossed long-horned antelope motif to front cover.

The Neville Copy—Sotheby's New York, 16 November 2004, lot 328 (noting🐻 it as fine with virtually none of t🥂he fading endemic to this title)

Hanneman A 13a

jacket spine panel only very faintly faded, some creasing and rubbing along top edge and front flap fold, scattered staining to rear panel, more so to verso. Full black calf folding case with embossed long-horned antelope motif to front cover.
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First edition, the Neville copy of an important presentation, inscribed to his Wyoming hosts, the Nordquists. "To the Nordquists / with all best wish🐠es / Ernest Hem🌸ingway"

Lawrence and Olive Nordquist owned the L-Bar-T Ranch in Wyoming just over the Montana state line near Cooke City that became a refuge of sorts for Hemingway from the summer of 1930 and a frequent sporting destination throughout the following decade.  He trout fished and  hunted the peaks for elk and bear with Dos Passos, but also wrote a great deal in a cabin above the tree line. Significant parts of both Death in the Afternoon (1932) and To Have and Have Not (1937) were written there🐼.  He quic🅘kly became close to the stoic Swedes and they were two of the non-literary visitors that went to his hospital bedside as he recovered from a serious car wreck in 1930.