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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+. First Printing of the author's first novel, published by Scribner's after Boni and Liveright rejected it. 8vo: [8],143,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven midnight-green cloth (appearing almost black)f, spine and upper cover lettered in scarlet, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Wanting the dust jacket. Better than Near Fine (slight lean, fronrtend papers toned, several marginal stains to text) copy of Hemingway's first novel and second book to be published in America, one of only 1250 copies printed. Provenance: circular blindstamp of Ray McRae to front fly-leaf, small bookseller's ticket of Brentano's, Paris, to lower paste-down. Hanneman A4.A. In this slim volume, Hemingway parodied Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter (1925), and because Anderson was under contract with Boni and Liveright, that publisher chose not to publish the parody. According to the Literary Encyclopedia, The Torrents of Spring was on…

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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