Easton Press leather edition of Ernest Hemingway's "True at First Light," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Introduction by son PATRICK HEMINGWAY, Illustrated by Richard Sparks, one of the COLLECTED WORKS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY series, published in 1990. Bound in chocolate brown leather with an African warrior in the center of the front board, the book has acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, grew up in Oak Forest, Illinois, the son of a medical doctor and a musical---but domineering mother. Hemingway was married four times: Hadley Richardson, his Arkansas wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Hemingway. Patrick Hemingway wrote in the Introduction: "The story opens in a place and a time for me, at least, that remains highly significant. I spent the first half of my grown-up life in East Africa. Hemingway wrote: "In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable." "True at First Light" is about his 1953-54 African safari with his fourth wife Mary. The two were in two plane crashes in the African bush and it was reported that Ernest had died. Hemingway spent the next two years in Havana, recuperating and writing his 'African book.' The work remained unfinished at his death in 1961, and Mary donated it along with his other manuscripts to the JOHN F. KENNEDY Library in Boston. The manuscript was released to Hemingway's son, PATRICK, in the mid-1990s. Patrick wrote in the Introduction: "Ambiguous counterpoint between fiction and truth lies at the heart of this memoir. Because of my fortuitous position as number two son, I spent a great deal of time with my father during my later childhood and adolescence, the period of his marriages to Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh. I remember one summer when I was thirteen inadvertently walking into Papa's bedroom at the house Marty had found for the two of them in Cuba when they were making love in one of those rather athletic ways recommended in manuals for the pursuit of happiness in married life. I immediately withdrew and I don't think they saw me . . ." 319 pages. I offer combined shipping.