DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON

First English edition, the same year as the American first. Frontispiece in colors by Juan Gris and 81 full page photographs of the bullfights. 8vo, publisher’s original rust-colored cloth lettered in black. 359 pp. A very good copy, the binding strong and clean with light aging to the spine panel, the colour vivid, the text-block clean and the photographs all in good order.

Edizione: scarce first english edition of hemingway’s classic work on bullfighting. hemingway's tour de force and tactile exploration of bullfighting and its subtle relationship to the human spirit and emotion. <br> hemingway intended this book as an introduction to spanish bullfighting and is the first book in spanish or english to attempt to explain the phenomenon both emotionally and practically. his reputation for masterful and richly tactile prose is upheld in this unusual treatise. <br> "in this book, hemingway has brought into focus a great deal that is significant about human living and dying, and about the trade called literature.put into this book, [are] the profound and subtle reasons why bullfighting is so wonderful to so many men.why it is moving and important and exalting. by virtue of an undismayed and undeceived honesty he has been able to see what actually happens during moments of overwhelming emotion when the exact cause of the exaltation is usually unnoticed.there are episodes of gorgeous comedy and satire.dicta about writing so honest and true.will very likely become common axioms, so vivid and sincere and convincing is their presentation." <br> this edition was published the same time as the american first and with the same illustrations. an attractive copy of a classic work.