Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Green Hills of Africa. 8vo, publisher's green cloth; dust jacket, spine panel tanned, rear panel torn with approximately one-half lost and with long tear. Later edition, inscribed by Hemingway: "To Clara who has seen and been in Africa / this attempt to do the same / with love / Papa." Also includes laid in Autograph Postcard Signed by Mary Hemingway (7 February 1962, postmarked Nairobi) to George Brown, Esq. that mentions a successful lion hunt there in which Clara [Spiegel] participated, and conveys "Papa's greetings." Clara Gatzert Spiegel was a longtime friend of Hemingway. Her husband (of mail-order catalogue fame) was in the Italian Ambulance Corps with Ernest in 1918. When they divorced, she moved to Ketchum, Idaho near the Hemingways. She herself was a hunter, sportswoman, and author; she helped Hemingway type and edit For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953