Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1950] CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1st Printing with capital A and Scribner's colophon on the copyright page.

Dust jacket is in tact. Unclipped front panel with a $3.00 price tag. Vibrant but worn, with creasing, a few edge tears, and a small chunk missing from lower left corner. Foxing to front and rear panel as well as underside.

Book is in good shape. Excellent reading copy with some foxing / tanning to liner pages and flyleaf.

Black leatherette cover looks great. Pages are nice and readable.  Far end of the book has some minor foxing to outer edges of pages, not visible on the actual page [see last photo]. 

HEMINGWAY'S POIGNANT TALE OF A LOVE FOUND TOO LATE
Set in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is becoming a physical hardship to him. It is a love so overpowering and spontaneous that it revitalizes the man's spirit and encourages him to dream of a future, even though he knows that there can be no hope for long. Spanning a matter of hours, Across the River and into the Trees is tender and moving, yet tragic in the inexorable shadow of what must come.