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First edition, second printing, in the dust jacket. Hemingway's second novel is a roman à clef which draws on his and Hadley's tumultuous time in Paris in the 1920s. The book is dedicated to Hadley and quotes as its epigraph Gertrude Stein's enduring description of Hemingway and his peers as "a lost generation". The Sun Also Rises "soon became a handbook of conduct for the new generation... There is nothing that has gone bad and not a word to be changed after so many years. It is all carved in stone, bigger and truer than life; and it is the work of a man who, having ended his busy term of apprenticeship, was already a master at twenty-six" (Cowley, pp. 70-3). The second printing, which came a month after the first, is identified by the correction of "stoppped" to "stopped" at 181.26. Dust jackets from the second printing give "In Our Time" rather than "In Our Times" on the front panel, include on the rear panel Conrad Aiken's review of The Sun Also Rises, and have a reset rear flap headed by "A truly gripping story" rather than "The Torrents of Spring". Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front with gold labels lettered in black, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket by Cleonike Damianakes. Pencil ownership inscription of Jessie Evans Hazard, dated December 1926, on front free endpaper. Spine foot bumped, foxing to edges, light browning and splash mark to endpapers, text clean; rubbing to unclipped jacket, splash marks and small tears, toned spine chipped at ends, losing two letters of imprint, old tape reinforcement on verso: a very good copy in like jacket. Grissom A.6.1.b; Hanneman 6A. Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering, 1973.

The Sun Also Rises is a novel by the American author Ernest Hemingway. The book's title is taken from Ecclesiastes and alludes to the disillusionment and moral erosion of the post-World War I generation. The novel tells the story of American expatriates living in Paris and their journey to Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. One of Hemingway's most enduring works, it is notable for its sparse prose style and for introducing the label 'Lost Generation' to describe Hemingway and his contemporaries.