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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine first edition in a near fine jacket. The book is fine, clean, and tight with bright gold foil labels; the jacket has some mended tears (mends on verso), and some nicks to top edge have been filled-in and colored to match. Housed in a beautiful custom blue morocco over cloth slipcase with folding blue cloth chemise. Contains 14 short stories in all; dedicated to poet Archibald MacLeish. Hanneman A12a (with 'A' and Scribner's seal on title page verso); first state of the jacket (with Laurence Stallings' quotation from his review of 'Death in the Afternoon' on jacket lower cover). [8], 244 pages. PROVENANCE: Bookplate of John Frderick Stephens on front pastedown (under jacket flap).

Winner Take Nothing is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway.

Identifying a first edition of 'Winner Take Nothing' requires checking the publisher's identification methods for the year of publication. For Scribner, this typically includes checking for the 'A' present on the copyright page indicating a first printing.