small folio, number 114 of 170 copies, presentation copy inscribed by the author ("For Bertram and Gusta Hartman | With love from Ernest Hemingway. | Paris 1924") on front free endpaper, woodcut frontispiece of the author after Henry Strater, original printed boards in red and black, collector's chemise and slipcase, some browning, extremities and spine worn with some loss and repairs, fixed endpapers cockled

Hanneman A2(a)

Hemmingway contributed a piece about the American painter Bertram Hartman (1882–1960) and his wife in his “blue notebooks” during the early 1920s. According to Carlos Baker in his biography of Hemingway: 'Bertram had met a German girl named Gusta, who was working as assistant to a fashionable photographer in Munich. According to Ernest, Gusta … had run away from her family near Bodensee. After their marriage, Gusta made hooked rugs from designs that Bertram painted for her. These remained unsold because Gusta’s prices were too high’ (p. 205). The Hemingways also spent most of the winter of 1924 with Bertram Hartman at the Hotel Taube in Schruns, Austria (and Hemingway is reported to have bowled with Hartman every day in the hotel’s bowling alley).