1950 Across the River and Into the Trees

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first UK edition, first impression.

In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.

'Across the River and Into the Trees' follows the star-crossed romance between a fifty year old US Army Officer and a Venetian woman thirty years his junior.

By Ernest Hemmingway, this novel based on his personal experiences on his infatuation with a young Adriana Ivancich, who he met on a trip to Italy.

With the former owner's inscription of Henry Gibbs to the front free endpaper.

Despite receiving some negative reviews for its sadder elements, this was a best seller in America, with it being Hemingway's only novel to top the New York Times bestseller's list.