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New York: Scribner's, 1932. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall 8vo, publisher's black cloth gilt in pictorial color dust jacket featuring artwork by Roberto Domingo. Book very good with faint surface mottling to lower rear board, light soil to text block edges, light offsetting / tanning to portions of endpapers. Jacket very good with light general surface soil and faint spots and stains, two very short tears to top edge of front panel, darkening at the flap folds, toning and light soil to rear panel, jacket's verso has slight soil and yellowing and lower part of rear panel with light surface wear. Jacket unclipped ($3.50) and copyright page with "A" and publisher's seal, indicators of the first printing and issue. Contents very good and clean, no writing or marks, slight foxing to plate guard of the Juan Gris frontispiece. A superior copy! Hanneman A10a.

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.

First edition copies of 'Death in the Afternoon' published by Charles Scribner's Sons will have a 'A' present on the copyright page, indicating a first printing, and lack any subsequent print history.