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First Printing with 1932 on the full title page and the Scribner's seal and the letter A on the copyright page. Comes with its original unclipped Dust Jacket with the original price of $3.50. The dust jacket is Fair only - it is in 4 pieces - the front panel is barely attached to the front flap and they are detached from the rest of the jacket. The rear panel is fully attached to the rear flap and they are detached from the rest of the jacket. What remains of the jacket's spine panel is in two pieces, both fully detached from the rest of the jacket. Overall, roughly 85%-90% of the jacket is present, held together in a Mylar sleeve. Please see all of our photos for details. Book is in VG+ condition with a slightly slanted spine. Spine titles bright. No previous owner marks of any kind. Both ends of spine and all corners bumped. Beautiful color frontispiece - The Bullfighter by Juan Gris. The frontispiece tissue guard is fully intact and present. Book is complete including all the photographs. A 1973 review of Malcolm Cowley's influential book A Second Flowering (about Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the literary Lost Generation of WWI) included. Ships very well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 517 pages.

Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. It was originally published in 1932.