"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway -- First Edition Library

A near-perfect copy of the 1940 first edition of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – at a fraction of the cost of this hard-to-find collectible. In the late 1980s, The First Edition Library (FEL) began publishing high-quality facsimiles of unique first editions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries based on literary importance, historical significance, and author recognition. The degree of accuracy maintained in the duplication of original first editions was nothing less than extraordinary. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dustjacket, finish, and texture as the originals. Even mistakes, known as first edition points, were duplicated as erroneously printed. The only alteration to the original was to include "FEL" on the rear dust jacket flap, and the book itself contained a block of text appearing on the copyright page identifying the printing as a facsimile reprint of the original. The First Edition Library did, however, make improvements to the originals. Acid-free paper was used, together with a slipcase attractively decorated with pastedowns of the dust jacket.

Ernest Hemingway's first novel is considered by some scholars to be his greatest work, following American and British expats in the 1920s as they travel from Paris to Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls. The characters are based on personalities who were part of Hemingway's circle and pulled from his own exploits in trips to Paris and Spain in the 1920s. “The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal.