The Book Shed

light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and quite a bit more to jacket, gift inscription of July 6, 1942, top edge dusty; priced jacket is edgeworn, small chips, creases. Ernest Hemingway wrote of the book in a letter: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West With The Night? ...She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But this girl, who is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade bitch, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book." First printing, same date. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors if applicable.