First edition, first printing. Bound in full green Morocco, with black onlay and blocked in 22 carat gold. This title includes a full 22 carat gilt spine, hand sewn silk headbands, and hand marbled papers.
First edition, first printing of the author's recollection of his 1933-34 big-game hunting trip in Tanganyika, in modern-day Tanzania. After publishing Winner Take Nothing in 1933, "Hemingway went to Africa to shoot the bounding kudu and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa. It is the most literary hunting trip on record" (New York Times). Here Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." It stands as one of his most memorable books set in the continent and, along with The Snows of Kilimanjaro, helped to establish his reputation as a safari-hunter and outdoorsman.
