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  "Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not; Signed by Iconic Actress Lauren Bacall and Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery

  HEMINGWAY, Ernest. [Lauren Bacall].

  To Have and Have Not.

  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

  First edition of Ernest Hemingway's fourth novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, signature stamp to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by actress Lauren Bacall on a page bound in. Lauren Bacall born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx and educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts — was one of the most iconic presences in Hollywood cinema, whose smoky vocal delivery, cool intelligence, and physical composure made her a defining figure of the film noir era. Her screen debut in Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not (1944) adapted loosely from Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel, with a screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner — remains one of the most celebrated entrances in cinema history: nineteen years old and entirely unknown, Bacall appeared opposite Humphrey Bogart in the role of Marie "Slim" Browning, producing one of the most palpable on-screen chemistries Hollywood has ever captured, and introducing "The Look" her characteristic pose of tilting her chin down and gazing upward through half-lidded eyes that became her permanent v...

  Price: $2,800.00     Item Number: 151967

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