Books

Hemingway, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1926. First edition. Green cloth, front board stamped in orange. 8vo. A few nicks and wear to cloth, two rubber stamps to fly, bookseller labels to rear pastedown, a few toned pages. Good to very good. Hemingway s first novel, and his first book published by Scribner s. One of 1250 copies printed.

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'.