Title: The Torrents of Spring
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Description: Greenish-black cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition, later issue dust jacket, with reviews for The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women on the rear panel.Hemingway’s first novel, printed in an edition of only 1250 copies, the first of his books to be published by Scribner's. Hemingway began the book while under contract to Boni & Liveright, who had published his first book, the collection of stories “In Our Time”. Hemingway was dismayed by the book’s lack of commercial success and blamed the publisher's poor promotion and use of blurbs by more famous writers -- most especially Sherwood Anderson, who was then the dean of American letters and Boni & Liveright's bestselling author. Hemingway felt the blurbs were off-putting and hurt, rather than helped, his book. Although he was under contract to Boni & Liveright for two more books, Hemingway contrived a plan to free himself from the obligation: his contract stated that if Boni rejected one of his books, he would be free to terminate the contract and take his writing elsewhere. As such, he conceived of a short, comic novel which would lampoon Sherwood Anderson's most recent book, “Dark Laughter”, and which would be unpublishable by Boni, thus freeing Hemingway to go elsewhere. Hemingway wrote “The Torrents of Spring” in a few short weeks in November, 1925 and submitted it to Boni & Liveright where it was promptly, as he had expected, rejected. Hanneman A4.A.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1926

Jacket browned, front flap price-clipped and with a $2.00 price stamped at head, extensive professional repairs on verso to flap folds and spine, paper restorations at spine ends (replacing the type for "The" and most of "Torrents" in the title) and tips of folds; volume with some restoration to spine ends, edges and corners, hinges repaired; paper to upper corner of front free endpaper; overall a nice copy, restored to very good or better condition.