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308p. Publishers original cloth with a clean dust jacket in an archival cover. First American edition with A on the copyright page of Hemingway's acclaimed first novel since For Whole the Bell Tolls housed in a handsome custom clamshell box. The title was take from the last words of Stonewall Jackson as he lay mortally wounded and delirious in the Chancellorsville campaign: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees". The English edition preceded the American edition by three days. Just one small nick at the top edge of the dust jacket.

Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1950, after first being serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine. The title derives from the last words of U.S. Civil War Confederate General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” Hemingway's novel chronicles the experiences of Colonel Richard Cantwell, an aging officer in the U.S. Army, during a weekend duck-hunting trip in Italy. Reflecting on his past and his love affair with a young countess, Cantwell's narrative captures themes of love, war, youth, and age.