Three Stories & Ten Poems

The book that started it all. The first published work of a literary legend. And the moment when a new voice in American writing announced itself—quietly, sparely, and without apology.

Ernest Hemingway’s debut collection is a slim, fierce volume that contains the seeds of everything he would later become: the spare prose, the stoic heroes, the war-wounded men, the unspoken grief, and the belief that what you leave out is as important as what you put in.

The three stories: “Up in Michigan,” a stark tale of desire and betrayal set in a small northern town; “Out of Season,” a story about a fishing trip gone wrong and a marriage that has already failed; and “My Old Man,” a story about a boy, his father, a jockey, and the moment when a child learns that adults cannot be trusted. The ten poems: early works that show Hemingway struggling with the form he would soon abandon for fiction, but that already reveal his eye for the concrete detail, the telling image, the clean line.

This is Hemingway at his most young and raw: a book that was published in Paris in 1923 by Robert McAlmon’s Contact Press, in an edition of just 300 copies. It sold poorly. It was largely ignored. But it caught the attention of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ford Madox Ford—and it launched the career of the most influential American prose stylist of the twentieth century.

• Hemingway’s first published book, printed in Paris in 1923 in a limited edition of 300 copies

• Contains the first appearance of “Up in Michigan,” a story that was considered too sexually explicit for American publication for decades

• A rare and collectible volume for Hemingway enthusiasts, now reproduced for a wider audience

Available in multiple formats:

• Paperback & Hardcover: Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last.

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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears—or the perfect gift for anyone who knows that great things often begin in small, strange packages.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I. After the war, he moved to Paris, where he became part of the “Lost Generation” expatriate community that included Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. Three Stories & Ten Poems was published in 1923 by Robert McAlmon’s Contact Press, with a cover designed by Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson. The book was printed in Dijon, France, by the printer Maurice Darantière. Only 300 copies were printed; fewer than 200 survive. In 1924, Hemingway published a second slim volume, in our time (lowercase), which would evolve into In Our Time (1925), his first American short story collection. Hemingway died by suicide in 1961. He is buried in Ketchum, Idaho.