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New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1937. First Edition. 262 pp. Hardcover: VERY GOOD. Dust Wrapper: VERY GOOD. First Edition, First Printing with the publisher's "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. Book has slight cocking and some discoloration; crimped bottom right corner. Dust Wrapper has some chipping around the edges; minor fading and a few blemishes. To Have And Have Not was Hemingway's first full length novel since A Farewell to Arms was published eight years earlier. The novel explores social circumstances and situations in Key West - "that paradise of the 'haves' and purgatory of the have nots." Basis for the 1944 Howard Hawks film co-scripted by William Faulkner and featuring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

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.