New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons (1931)

First Edition of the 1931 revised edition.

The Scribner edition is the second U.S. edition of In Our Time. The true first edition was published by Boni & Liveright in 1925. In 1930, Scribner published a revised edition. It includes an introduction by Edmund Wilson and an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. This copy for sale is a 1931 copy of the Scribner.

Very good dust jacket that has some chips and stains. Boards are fine. No interior markings. Contents page has a small tear. Overall, a nice copy of a book that is almost a hundred years old.

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Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, did more to change the style of fiction in English than any other writer of his time with his economical prose and terse, declarative sentences that conceal more than they reveal. In Our Time, published in 1925, was the collection that first drew the world's attention to Hemingway. Besides revealing his versatility as a writer and throwing fascinating light on the themes of his major novels--war, love, heroism, and renunciation--this collection contains many stories that are lasting achievements in their own right, including the Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three-Day Blow," "The Battler," and "Big Two-Hearted River."