The Sun Also Rises (Scribner's, 1926)

Hemingway's first novel came out from Scribner's in October 1926 in a printing of 5,090 copies, wrapped in a gold and brown jacket by Cleonike Damianakes, who signed her work Cleon. Her draped classical figure, slumped beneath a bare tree, with two golden apples flanking the title, looks nothing like bullfights or Paris bars, which is part of its charm. Look closely at the bottom band: it lists Hemingway's earlier book as "In Our Times," with a stray s.