Death in the Afternoon / by Ernest Hemingway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bullfights.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 408, 409-493, 495-515 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.

Contents:

Chapter I to XX, inclusive

Illustrations

An explanatory glossary

Some reactions of a few individuals to the integral Spanish bullfight

A short estimate of the American, Sidney Franklin, as a matador

Date on which bullfights will ordinarily be held in Spain, France, Mexico, and Central and South America.

Notes:

Date of edition on title-page.

"Copyright, 1932, by Charles Scribner's Sons."

"The present volume 'Death in the Afternoon' ... is intended as an introduction the modern Spanish bullfight and attempts to explain that spectacle both emotionally and practically."--Bibliographical Note.

Black calico-grain cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Dust jacket has bright yellow and deep blue panels lettered in blue and white.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has dust jacket B (1947) printing retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok March 1948".

Potok Collection copy has frontispiece (The Bull Fighter by Juan Gris) and tissue guard wanting.

Cited in:

Beginning with the 1947 Scribner printing, the frontispiece (The Bullfighter by Juan Gris) and tissue guard are absent in the Scribner's printing.--Grissom, C. E. : Ernest Hemingway A.10.1.d.