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HEMINGWAY, Ernest, contribution. The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American short Story . Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. 8 o. Original black cloth (some wear and fading). (Hinges cracked, one leaf loose.) Provenance : Charles Thompson (ownership inscription on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by the recipient Charles Thompson on the front pastedown: "Chas Thompson from Ernest." Includes Hemingway's "The Killers," which had first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in March 1927 and also collected in Men Without Women (1927).