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A very presentable, markedly above-average copy of the 1937 true 1st edition (with the letter 'A' and the Scribner seal to the copyright pg., and the 1937 date at both the title and copyright pages). Tight and VG+, with light offsetting along the inner hinges and pastedowns. And in a bright, price-intact ($2.50), VG+ dustjacket, with just a bit of light chipping (much less than one often encounters) at the front panel's upper tip and along the spine crown. Octavo, one of Hemingway's legendary movie tie-ins and his 9th published work.

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. Hemingway's most intriguing and tantalizing themes make their appearance: man's battle against the cruelty of nature, the pressures of society on the individual, and the existential qualities of life in the modern world.