Green Hills of Africa- Ernest Hemingway

Green Hills of Africa. By Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First edition, first printing, with Scribner’s “A” at copyright, dates matching on title and copyright page. Smooth lime green cloth boards, facsimile of Hemingway’s signature stamped in gilt at front board, with title and  publisher stamped in gilt on black block at spine. Second state or variant dust jacket which has a thinner green band on the rear panel that is not overlapping the text, and text in a larger, bolder font. (Hanneman A13a.) Jacket is clipped, chipping and rubbing at edges, worn, with vertical dotted pattern of loss of color running through front panel, tape repairs at head and top corners, damp stain at lower front corner (visible from jacket verso). Previous ownership name at front free endpaper and title page, Mary P. Trauter.

Originally serialized in Scribner’s Magazine, from May to November 1935, and first published in book form October 25, 1935. A non-fiction work by Hemingway, it recounts a month on safari with his wife during December 1933.