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London: Collins. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Edge-block foxed. 1926. First Edition. Dark green hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 398pp. First issue points: first printing with the mis-spelled dedication 'To H L Mencken and S Stanwood Mencken'. .

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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