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Hemingway, Ernest : Sailfish Off Mombasa: A Key West Letter in Esquire Magazine

Esquire, Inc., Chicago, 1935

Folio. Entire issue, March, 1935, in original colorful pictorial Sam Berman wraps, moderate general wear and rubbing, occasional faded spots at cover reminiscent of foxing, front wrap separated about 3 inches at top, and 1 inch at bottom. Another so - called letter to Esquire. From the opening paragraph, "This time last year we were fishing for sailfish off the East coast of Africa up around Malindi in a lousy boat called the Xanadu with an engine that was gone; the rings were bad, the valves stuck and boat's bottom was so foul the motor would not drive her four miles an hour even when it was hitting well. Just about then she broke down again and we drifted. Every time she stopped, the Hindu, who had shipped as engineer, would take the carburetor off and blow on it." Issue includes other non-fiction from Arthur E. Kraetzer, M.D., Edward Acheson, Fred C. Kelly, Major Paul Brown, Garnett Laidlaw Eskew, Captain Hugh Duncan Grant, George Seiters, Stuart Howe, John Gunther, Edward Lasker, and Lawton Mackall, fiction from Thomas Mann, J. D. Beresford, Louis Paul, Konrad Bercovici, Clayton Knight, Clendenin Williams, Emmett Gowen, Manuel Komroff, C. Clyde Myers, and R. D'Auxion de Ruffe, poetry from Theodore Dreiser, semi-fiction from R. H. Torres, sports from John R. Runis, Harold Titus, Howie Morenz, and E. H. Sheets, humor from Creighton Peet, Lynn Montross, Duane Decker, and Walter Brooks, personalities from John Wilstach on Wilson Mizner, and Herbert Corey on Joseph P. Kennedy, pictorial features from Leslie Saalburg, Howard Baer, and George Shellhase, and cartoons from John Groth, E. Simms Campbell, R. Van Buren, Gilbert Bundy, D. McKay, Howard Baer, Rodney de Sarro, Paul Webb, Jay Irving, George Petty, Ty Mahon, Abner Dean, and Roland Coe.. Magazine. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Soft cover

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