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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Basis of the 1945 Warner Bros. film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. A Very Good copy of the First Edition, First Printing hardcover in original first issue jacket complete with $2.40 price, with 'A' and Scribner's seal on title page verso (jacket has some nicks to edges, creases, and wear; usual offset to endpaper gutters). Black cloth is unfaded, gilt is bright. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. [8],262pp. Hanneman A14A.

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. Hemingway's most intriguing and tantalizing themes make their appearance: man's battle against the cruelty of nature, the pressures of society on the individual, and the existential qualities of life in the modern world.

One method to determine a first edition of 'To Have and Have Not' is by identifying the 'A' present on the copyright page, indicating a first printing, and absence of mention of later printings.