"The Complete Short Stories" of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition with A Foreword by his sons, published by Charles Scribner, New York, 1987. No price on the front flap of DJ [probably BOMS edition]. The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction.

Original dust jacket [upper edge wear, crease and a few small damages]; hard boards, 1/5th maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine; 6.1/4" x 9"; 650 pages + one page "About Author"; light fold of the back-ep, very good/ fine condition.

"For the vast majority of readers, their exposure to Ernest Hemingway’s short stories is limited to a couple of oft anthologized selections, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Well, those are here but so are approximately 70 others. Get ready for steady doses of hunting and fishing, bullfighting and whiskey. A heavy helping feature Nick Adams, most often in Michigan. War is a recurring topic. France, Spain, Italy, Cuba and Africa appear often. In the end two stories new to me made the most lasting impressions." [from a review]

At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, "Up in Michigan." Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. The Short Stories chronicles Hemingway's development as a writer, from his earliest attempts in the chapbook Three Stories and Ten Poems, published in Paris in 1923, to his more mature accomplishments in Winner Take Nothing.Originally published in 1938 along with The Fifth Column, this collection premiered "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge," which derive from Hemingway's experiences in Spain, as well as "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," which figure among the finest of Hemingway's short fictions.

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers," "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain, bald language of his first story, "Up in Michigan," to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.

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