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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 143 pages. In Very Good condition, in a Good plus dust jacket. Beige spine with black titling. Some chipping along upper and lower edges of dust jacket, largest chipping along head of spine causing part of title to be chipped off, and top edge of front cover, small water-stain to lower fore corner of front cover of dust jacket. Price unclipped: "$1.50". Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine. Text block has an ink ownership information (dated 1932) on page [1], and very light foxing primarily to endpapers. TC Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Hemingway's first published long work, The Torrents of Spring was written as a parody of the pretentious literary world (specifically mocking Sherwood Anderson). Scribner's published Torrents in an edition of 1,250 copies in 1926, and released The Sun Also Rises later that same year.…

The Torrents of Spring is a novel by Ernest Hemingway written in 1925 about a young man's disillusionment with love. It satirizes the over-romanticized literature of the time and is a parody of Sherwood Anderson's 'Dark Laughter'.

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