On the inside front cover is the bookplate designed by Hemingway for Captain Louis Henry Cohn, Hemingway's first bibliographer, to whom the volume is inscribed on the fly-leaf.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)

One of 300 copies of the first edition of the author's first book, inscribed "To Louis Henry Cohn from Ernest Hemingway." The Contact Publishing Company was founded in 1923 by Robert McAlmon (1896-1956), an American expatriate writer and publisher in Paris. McAlmon and Hemingway had met earlier that year at Rapallo, where Ezra Pound was living.

This presentation copy has Hemingway's holograph corrections throughout the story "Up in Michigan," which was not published in the United States until 1938. The version included that year in The First Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories was the uncorrected one; these corrections have never been published. The volume bears the bookplate of Captain Louis Henry Cohn, Hemingway's first bibliographer. The bookplate was designed by Hemingway and reads, in Hemingway's hand, "From the works (give him the works) of Ernest Hemingway in the Library of Louise Henry Cohn." Three Stories & Ten Poems is part of a collection of first editions, manuscripts, galleys and other material by and about Ernest Hemingway formed by Cohn now in the University of Delaware Library.

The Captain Louis Henry Cohn/Marguerite Cohn Ernest Hemingway Collection