Across The River and Into The Trees

Across The River and Into The Trees by Ernest Hemingway, First edition, first printing, first/second state $500.00

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1950. We call this dust jacket a first/second state with the yellow instead of orange bubble in the middle of the spine of the dust jacket and orange elsewhere on the spine. The book is in very good or better condition with no owner’s signatures, bookplates, or other marks in a bright price clipped dust jacket with a closed tear at the bottom of the front panel and some minor chipping. The last words of the great Confederate General Stonewall Jackson: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." Hemingway’s main character in this book is an aging but still fierce fighter who must follow the advice of Stonewall Jackson, but how, there’s the rub.