Shipping Winter 2025/Early 2026

Limited to 26 copies and sold with rights to future Copperhead Press editions.

11 Copies Remaining**

Ernest Hemingway's Breakout Novel

With the publication of The Sun Also Rises in 1926, Ernest Hemingway became a literary superstar. Hemingway's first novel gives readers an inside look of what life was like among "the Lost Generation" who struggled to find themselves while living in the fallout of the first World War. We sit right alongside American and British expatriates as they frequent Parisian cafes and bars, fish in the Pyrenees and experience the bull fights and fiesta in Pamplona, Spain.

Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Lady Brett Ashely and others; Hemingway's novel introduces us to some of American Literature's most enduring characters. Considered by many as his finest work and greatest novel, we are pleased to publish a new edition of this early modernist classic. 

This Edition

Measurement: 8 7/8" x 5 7/8"

Full bound with Deep Chocolate Brown Goatskin Leather. The cover is designed with the signature of the author. The book title is blind embossed on Cognac sheep skin leather. False bands have been added to the spine. When opened the book will lay flat with an "eye" along the spine. The Copperhead Press logo is blind embossed at the bottom of the spine.

Each of these copies will be hand sewn with golden yellow book thread. The end pages are handmade paste papers, each one unique and sewn to the text block, making an extra strong binding. 

The headbands are made from Cognac sheepskin leather, matching the spine tag.

Inside you will find over 20 illustrations by the early cubist master, Juan Gris. Born in Madrid in 1887, then moving to Paris in 1906, Gris was at his heights throughout the 1910's-20's. His artwork is displayed today in National Galleries and Museums around the world. 

The clamshell case is made with a thick book board and is covered in Natural Oatmeal Bookcloth. This Japanese-like bookcloth is made from natural cotton and linen fibers in Italy. It is not bleached, dyed or coated, making for a very pleasing cloth to hold. Inside, lining the trays, is Honey suede cloth and an interior spine piece covered in paste paper matching the end pages. The outside of the clamshell features an inset illustration by Juan Gris which is layered over Bugra Chamois paper. The clamshell spine tag is printed on white felt paper and layered over Dark Burgundy Cow Leather. The clamshell measures 9 3/4" x 6 3/4".

Printing & Paper

Printed offset on white felt paper. 

Sold with rights to future lettered editions.

As an idea of what future titles may be, some of our favorite writers are: John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, etc... We like many modernist writers and the classics that influenced them.