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Copperhead Press

The Sun Also Rises (Lettered Edition)

The Sun Also Rises (Lettered Edition)

$750.00 USD
$750.00 USD
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Limited to 26 copies

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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

Dimensions

  • Book: 8 7/8" x 5 7/8"
  • Clamshell case: 9 3/4" x 6 3/4"

Binding & Cover

  • Full bound in deep chocolate brown goatskin leather
  • Cover features author’s signature design
  • Title blind embossed on cognac sheepskin leather
  • False bands added to spine for detail
  • Opens flat with an “eye” along the spine
  • Copperhead Press logo blind embossed at the base of the spine

Construction

  • Hand-sewn with golden yellow book thread
  • Endpapers made from unique handmade paste papers, sewn to the text block for extra strength
  • Headbands made from cognac sheepskin leather, matching the spine tag

Illustrations

  • Includes over 20 illustrations by early cubist master Juan Gris, renowned for his work from 1910s–20s

Clamshell Case

  • Made from thick book board, covered in natural oatmeal bookcloth (Italian cotton and linen, unbleached and undyed)
  • Interior lined with honey suede cloth and spine piece covered in matching paste paper
  • Exterior features an inset Juan Gris illustration layered over Bugra Chamois paper
  • Spine tag printed on white felt paper layered over dark burgundy cow leather

Printing & Paper

  • Printed offset on white felt paper

 

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Collaborators

Artist

Samuel Thomson  

Samuel Thomson is an Ottawa-based traditional printmaker and illustrator specializing in linocut. His passion for high-contrast, hard-carved imagery began at the Bealart program in London, Ontario, and has since grown into an independent practice.

foreword written by

Michael Von Cannon

Michael Von Cannon teaches modern American literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the co-creator and producer of One True Podcast and is co-editing the final volumes of Hemingway's correspondence for the Hemingway Letters Project.

afterword written by

Mark Cirino

Mark Cirino teaches American literature at the University of Evansville. He is the host of the popular Hemingway Society-sponsored program, One True Podcast. His most recent publication is an edition of A Farewell to Arms edited for the Norton Library.