Ernest Hemingway

A handsome vintage edition of Hemingway’s defining Lost Generation novel, boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway on the dedication page and retaining its original dust jacket.

Offered here is a vintage hardcover edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, personally signed by Hemingway in ink across the book’s dedication page.

Few twentieth-century novels are as closely identified with their author as The Sun Also Rises. Published originally in 1926, Hemingway’s first full-length novel established the spare, economical prose style that would transform modern American literature and helped define an entire generation of writers.

This later edition bears a particularly attractive example of Hemingway’s full signature:

“Ernest Hemingway”

The autograph is prominently positioned beneath the printed dedication to Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, and their son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway.

The Sun Also Rises

Written largely from Hemingway’s experiences among the expatriate community of 1920s Paris and Spain, The Sun Also Rises follows journalist Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, and their circle from the cafés of Paris to the bullfights and fiestas of Pamplona.

The novel became the defining literary portrait of the post-World War I expatriate generation—men and women whose experiences during and after the war left them searching for meaning in a radically changed world.

Its characters, settings, dialogue, drinking, fishing, bullfighting, and restrained treatment of love and loss established themes Hemingway would explore throughout his career.

The book also helped cement the phrase “Lost Generation” in the cultural imagination.

Signed by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway has signed the dedication page with his characteristic full signature, “Ernest Hemingway.”

The autograph is large and exceptionally well positioned, occupying the open space immediately beneath the printed dedication:

THIS BOOK IS
 FOR HADLEY AND FOR JOHN HADLEY 
NICANOR

This placement creates a particularly evocative association with Hemingway’s personal history. Hadley Richardson was Hemingway’s first wife and accompanied him during the Paris years that provided much of the world from which The Sun Also Rises emerged.

Rather than appearing on a detached card or unrelated document, Hemingway’s signature survives within one of the books most intimately associated with his life and literary reputation.

Hemingway and the Lost Generation

Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921 and became part of the extraordinary expatriate literary community that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and others.

His experiences in France and Spain during those years provided the foundation for The Sun Also Rises.

The novel’s publication transformed Hemingway from a promising young writer into one of the central figures of modern literature. His economical prose, reliance upon implication rather than explanation, and rejection of the elaborate literary conventions of the previous generation exerted enormous influence on subsequent writers.

Hemingway would receive the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Today, The Sun Also Rises remains one of the essential works of twentieth-century American literature.

Condition

The volume remains in good overall vintage condition and retains its original dust jacket.

The book exhibits expected age and handling characteristics. Importantly, the text block is showing some weakening, with pages beginning to loosen from the spine. The book should therefore be handled carefully to prevent further separation.

The signed dedication page remains highly presentable, with Hemingway’s autograph prominently displayed.

The dust jacket exhibits expected age-related wear but remains an important and visually attractive component of the book.

Please examine all accompanying photographs carefully, as they form an integral part of the condition description.

Details

Author/Signer: Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
Format: Hardcover
Dust Jacket: Original to this edition
Signature: “Ernest Hemingway”
Signature location: Dedication page
Condition: Good overall; text block weakening with pages beginning to loosen from spine
Category: Literature / Lost Generation / Nobel Laureates / Autographs / Signed Books

Collector Significance

An autograph by Ernest Hemingway is desirable in virtually any format, but his signature appearing within The Sun Also Rises carries an especially strong literary association.

The book introduced the voice that would make Hemingway one of the dominant figures of twentieth-century literature, while the signed dedication page connects the artifact directly with the Paris years, Hadley Hemingway, and the personal world from which the novel emerged.

A compelling signed example of one of the landmark novels of modern American literature, retaining its original dust jacket and bearing a large, beautifully presented Ernest Hemingway signature.