Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway [1970 HARDCOVER]

Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway 

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1970] CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 

Beautiful edition w/ decorative endpapers.  Full sized hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Dust jacket has heavy rub wear and shelf wear as well as some chipped edges;  Now housed in a HQ protective mylar jacket.  Tiny spot stain on front panel [see last photo] 

Book itself is near mint w/ minimal tanning.  Reads as new.  

First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer — a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing — from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) — this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene.
Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters — including an aging woman for hire who stands out as one of Hemingway's most vivid creations — engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway at his mature best.