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First UK edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s. The first UK edition of Hemingway's first long work, a satirical treatment of pretentious writers; here with an introduction by David Garnett. Light staining to lower fore-corners of cloth; dust-jacket slightly rubbed, some minor spotting, spine tanned.

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'.