New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First American edition. First printing with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page and bright yellow on the jacket spine. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth with some fingerprint smudges and some toning and dampstaining to edges of text block. Dust jacket with some chipping to corners and edges and a bit of toning to top edges of the flaps.

One of Hemingway's later novels, Across the River and Into the Trees grapples with the distorting power of memory at the end of life. The novel follows the meditations and ruminations of Colonel Richard Cantwell, who, while sitting in a duck blind in Venice, Italy, looks back on his life. While the book topped the New York Times bestseller list for many weeks, it saw mixed critical response: Cantwell's reflections on nostalgia and remorse sharply divided reviewers and the general reading public. Nevertheless, the book remains a haunting reflection on life, loss, and the emotional realities of aging by one of the most powerful American authors of the twentieth century. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (Item #8075)