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First Modern Library edition and first printing. Hardcover. While his earlier writings had been well received it was with this novel that Hemingway gained the literary accolades that launched him towards the rarified stratosphere of winning the Nobel Prize a few decades later. Features an introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. A clean near fine copy in flexible brown cloth boards and in a very good plus dust jacket with some edge tears, tiny chips and some other light wear. The rear panel mentions only 170 titles. A nicer than usual copy.

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.