HEMINGWAY, ERNEST — The Hemingway Reader: Selected with a Foreword and Twelve Brief Prefaces by Charles Poole

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Publisher's full salmon cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle. The volume includes: a foreword from "In Our Time", and these complete works: "Big Two-Hearted River", "The Torrents of Spring", "The Sun Also Rises", selections from "Farewell to Arms", "Death in the Afternoon, "The Green Hills of Africa", "To Have and Have Not", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Across the River and Into the Trees", and "The Old Man and The Sea" as well as several short stories: "The Way You'll Never Be", "Fifty Grand", "A Clean Well-Lighted Place", "The Light of the World", "After the Storm", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", The Capital of the World", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Old Man at the Bridge", and "The Fable of the Good Lion".. The spine and covers are moderately sunned, small external water spots on top edge, gilt faded. The interior is fine; unmarked, unread (some pages still uncut), tight, square, clean, and fresh. VERY GOOD. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xx, 652 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .