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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1898-1961). PUBLISHER'S MOCK UP for The Spanish Earth (Cleveland: The J.B. Savage Company, 1938). 60 8vo pages (190 x 125 mm), the printed text and illustrations by Frederick K. Russell pasted to blank leaves, corresponding to the text of the printed book (half-title to the end), wrappers with pasted mock-up of cover design, endpapers with the "F[ederacion] A[narquista] I[berica] banner pasted in, some occasional light soiling and glue staining. WITH 15 PENCILLED CORRECTIONS, MOST PROBABLY THE PUBLISHER'S ANNOTATIONS, which were incorporated into the printed edition and with a pen notation on the front cover "OK Russell per Lee Wood." [ With :] RUSSELL, Frederick K. Four original pen and ink drawings reproduced in The Spanish Earth . On two oblong 4to sheets, images approximately 135 x 75 mm (sheets 265 x 195 mm overall), with pencilled notations by the printer at foot . [ With :] HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Complete set of galley proofs for The Spanish Earth . Two uncut large folio sheets (685 x 530 mm), the galleys paginated, corresponding to the text of the printed book (half-title to the end: first sheet pp. [1]-32, second sheet pp. 33-60 . [ With :] HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Spanish Earth . Cleveland: The J.B. Savage Company, 1938. 8 o (191 x 128 mm). 7 plates after Frederick K. Russell. Original pictorial cloth (some very minor wear at ends of spine); boxed with the preceding items in a quarter morocco folding case. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 146 of 1,000 copies, FIRST ISSUE, with the pictorial endpapers with the "F. A. I." banner. Purportedly 50 to 100 copies of the first edition are of the first issue. Hanneman A15. A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING TO HEMINGWAY'S THE SPANISH EARTH , INCLUDING THE PUBLISHER'S MOCK UP, FOUR ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, GALLEY PROOFS AND A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE. In July 1937, the Dutch producer and director Joris Ivens released The Spanish Earth , a 54 minute anti-Fascist documentary with a screenplay by Archibald MacLeish, John Dos Passos and Lillian Hellman and with commentary by Hemingway. The soundtrack was compiled by Virgil Thompson and Marc Blitzstein. Originally scheduled to narrate the film was Orson Welles but Hellman and the actor Frederic March found his delivery too mannered. Ivens was prompted to ask Hemingway to read his own commentary, and the author reluctantly accepted. After the release of the film, the publisher Jasper Wood arranged to print the transcript of Hemingway's narration with illustrations by Frederick K. Russell. The present archive is remarkably complete, containing the entire publisher's mock-up, four of the seven original drawings by Russell, a copy of the galley proof and a copy of the first issue of the final printed book. Relatively few copies of the first issue were distributed due to Hemingway's disapproval with the result. A telegram sent by Hemingway to Jasper Wood (now at the University of Texas) was used to prepare a statement which appears on the rear endpaper in the second issue, announcing that Hemingway "had nothing to do with the preparation of this book, never saw the proof, furnished no material for the introduction, and has just wired protesting that he considers the introduction [by Wood] innacurate and in bad taste" because he is given credit for the film which he felt rightly due to Joris Ivens and John Ferno (quoted in Hanneman). Hemingway further protested the use of the F.A.I banner on the endpapers and requested that all proceeds from the sale of the book be sent to the widow of Dr. Werner Heilbrun who was killed in action in Spain. Hemingway's disapproval notwithstanding, the film proved influential in advancing the American public's view of the situation in Spain. Hemingway's third wife, Martha Gellhorn, brought the film to the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt. The First Lady was impressed with Gellhorn's enthusiasm, noting in one of her newspaper columns that there seems to be a "deep conviction that the