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49. Hemingway, Ernest. THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST<br />
HEMINGWAY. THE FINCA VIGIA EDITION. Foreword by John, Patrick, and Gregory<br />
Hemingway. Preface by Charles Scribner, Jr. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1987.<br />
An uncorrected proof copy that is very good in printed tan wrappers. This collection<br />
includes seven pieces of short fiction by Hemingway that are published here for the first<br />
time: A Train Trip, The Porter, Black Ass at the Cross Roads, Landscape with Figures,<br />
I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something, Great News from the Mainland, and The<br />
Strange Country. $125.00<br />
50. Hémon, Louis. MARIA CHAPDELAINE A TALE OF THE LAKE ST. JOHN<br />
COUNTRY. Translated by W. H. Blake. With an Introduction by Hugh Eayrs. New<br />
York: The Modern Library, 1934. A charming copy of the Modern Library first edition<br />
in the correct dust jacket with “225” on the rear jacket panel. The book has bright gilt<br />
lettering and design on the spine and front panel. There is a brief ownership inscription<br />
on the half-title but the text is otherwise free of markings. At the last page of text, a oneinch<br />
printed slip is tipped-in, stating: “This book has been printed from the plates of the<br />
Modern Readers’ Series.” The attractive dust jacket has very shallow chipping along the<br />
top edge of the rear panel and wear at some of the corners. $65.00<br />
Henry James’s first published extended work of fiction<br />
51. James, Henry. POOR RICHARD.<br />
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, June No.<br />
116, July No. 117, and August No. 118,<br />
1867. Very good, with minimal spine<br />
loss at some of the extremities, light shelf<br />
wear and some light foxing, each firmly<br />
bound in the original printed wrappers.<br />
These three successive issues of The<br />
Atlantic Monthly serialize Henry James’<br />
story, Poor Richard, his first published<br />
extended work of fiction and the earliest<br />
of his published stories that he would see<br />
reprinted and preserved in book form in<br />
his lifetime. Leon Edel treats the writing<br />
of Poor Richard extensively in Henry<br />
James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870,<br />
the first volume of his definitive<br />
biography. The story centers on three<br />
young men in their mid-twenties who<br />
compete for the attentions of Miss<br />
Gertrude Whittaker, the wealthy young<br />
heroine, during a summer vacation in<br />
rural New England. Two of them had<br />
served as officers in the Civil War but the<br />
third, Richard Clare, had avoided the<br />
army and instead remained in school. Richard soon becomes aware of his worldly<br />
inadequacies in relation to the officers, “as he gulped down the sickening fact of his<br />
comparative, nay, his absolute ignorance of the great world represented by his rivals, he<br />
felt like anticipating its consequences by a desperate sally into the very field of their