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EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET! **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION** The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. New York: The Modern Library, 1930 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. This is a very attractive FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great pictorial dust jacket. Bound in purple balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is VERY GOOD. Solid binding with slight cracking at page 18 but still strong otherwise, bright gilt on cover and spine, bright matching purple topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text. First Modern Library Edition 1930 stated on copyright page. GORGEOUS! The beautiful pictorial dust jacket is VERY GOOD - chipping on top and bottom otherwise clean and bright! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 170 titles matching a 1930 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION! This book is part of the Modern Library collection from the Boston Book Company which comprised 1,917 modern library volumes and was used to create A Descriptive Bibliography of The Modern Library: 1917 - 1970 by George M. Andes in 1989. If you see anything else you like in my store let me know before you order as I always offer discounts to repeat customers! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**
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