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The Spanish Earth by Ernest Hemingway published in Cleveland Ohio by The J. B. Savage Company, 1938. First (and sole) printing from the era.
Illustrated by Frederick K. Russell, introduction by Jasper Wood. A small format 60 page hardcover, with 7 full-page original charcoal drawings. Poster style covers show a fist defying aircraft, tan linen cloth, front cover lettered in black and decorated in orange, spine lettered in black, printed throughout in black on slightly tan ( not aged - this was thepaper colour) Linweave paper, with the original ( I assume) glassine jacket ( as issued - no dustjacket on this edition at all. )
Text of the narration for the sound track that Hemingway contributed to the 1938 film of the same name, about the Spanish Civil War, which broke out in 1936 with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided in two: a "Republican," or "Loyalist," Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic (within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism), and a "Nationalist" Spain under the insurgent generals and, eventually, under the leadership of General Francisco Franco. "Late in 1936, while Hemingway was working on To Have and Have Not, the North American Newspaper Alliance offered to hire him to report on the civil war being fought in Spain. The literary fruits of this undertaking, in addition to the news stories Hemingway produced to fulfill his contract, were the script for the narration of a pro-Republic documentary film, The Spanish Earth; a relatively unsuccessful play, The Fifth Column (published with his collected stories as The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories); a handful of short stories about wartime Spain, and his most successful novel in more than a decade, For Whom the Bell Tolls." (Literary Encyclopedia) The Spanish Earth was published by a precocious Cleveland high-school student named Jasper Wood, who was so moved on seeing the film that he convinced Hemingway to allow publication of the text.
This is copy 138 of the 1000 issued. An early and much more valuable variant ( of about 100 copies of the 1000) was issued with illustrated endpapers , this is NOT that variant.
