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First Edition of Hemingway's first novel, with 1926 on the title page with the Scribner's seal, 1926 on the copyright page. Clean black cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Tiny points of wear at corner tips and top spine edge, barely discernible. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Endpapers clean except for small faint x at top right corner of front free endpaper. Last page (p. 143) has chipping to margin. 143 pages.

The Torrents of Spring is a novel by Ernest Hemingway written in 1925 about a young man's disillusionment with love. It satirizes the over-romanticized literature of the time and is a parody of Sherwood Anderson's 'Dark Laughter'.