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Franklin Library leather edition of Ernest Hemingway's "The First Forty-Nine Stories," a Limited edition, Portrait of Hemingway by Peter Caras, Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs, a Limited edition, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1977. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, was was married four times; the second wife's family lived in PIGGOTT, ARKANSAS. He grew up in Oak Forrest, Illinois, the son of a medical doctor and a musical mother. As an adult, he was an ambulance drive in WW I and later lived in Paris, Kansas City, Key West, Florida, CUBA, Idaho, and Arkansas and he traveled all over the world . The short stories in this volume reflects his life in North American, Europe, and Africa. Some of the stories include: "Up in Michigan," "Today Is Friday," "Big-Hearted River," "Fifty Grand," "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio," "Fathers and Sons," "Soldier's Home," "The Killers," "Indian Camp," "Cat in the Rain," "My Old Man," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "The Capital of the World," "The End of Something," "The Three-Day Blow," "Mr. and Mrs. Eliot," "In Another Country," "Fifty Grand," "Now I Lay Me," "After the Storm," "Wine of Wyoming," "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio," "The Battler, "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen," "A Pursuit Race," "The Light of the World," "Che ti dice la Patria?" "Out of Season," "Soldier's Home," "Homage to Switzerland," "A Canary for One," "In Another Country," "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." 547 pages---a GORGEOUS book! I offer Combined shipping.