First edition, this copy has been inscribed by Hemingway to "Louis Henry Cohn of the VI Arrondissement from his co-citizen."

Critic Herbert Gorman's copy of the first edition is accompanied by an autograph list matching the novel's fictional characters with the names of the actual individuals upon whom Hemingway based them. Gorman's note reads "This is the list given me by Hemingway."

Although apparently not used in The Atlantic Monthly, editorial staff Edward Weeks praised the "hearty manner" of Barton's review. Barton overcame his prejudice of Hemingway's "bad little boys" style to find his bohemian Sun Set characters "alive. Amazingly real and alive."

Fiesta London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. The first English edition of The Sun Also Rises was published under Hemingway's original title for the novel, Fiesta.

The Sun Also Rises New York: The Modern Library, 1930. This copy of the first Modern Library edition of the novel bears the signature of the author Henry Seidel Canby, who wrote the introduction.

Daryl Zanuck's production starred Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, and Juliette Greco.

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