Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1965]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 254pp. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear only. Item #49309
Handsome first edition of Algren's writings about Ernest Hemingway -- and enormously inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "With best / wishes to / Gene and Phil / from / Nelson Algren / 5 Nov. / 1975," with his trademark sketch added showing the back side of a seated cat. Philip L. Gerber (1923-2005) -- "Gene" was his wife Eugenia -- was a noted English professor at the State University of New York at Brockport and author of several academic titles, including studies of Theodore Dreiser and Willa Cather in the popular "Twayne's United States Authors Series." Signed copies of this title are rarely encountered. Very scarce. BRUCCOLI A 11.1.
Price: $225.00