Ernest Hemingway lived in a time full of violence, pain, blood and hostility and became the spokesman for ‘The Lost Generation’. He was often “under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an accurate picture of conditions”, reporting as a journalist from many of the conflicts that raged in Europe throughout the 1930s and 1940s. These experiences provided him with rich sources of writing for many of his well-known works. in our time is Hemingway’s first collection of short stories about American life in the 1920s, written just after the First World War and dealing with the themes of alienation, loss, grief, and separation. First published in Paris in 1924, the book has a set of eighteen vignettes including descriptions of acts of war, bullfighting and current events. A collage of newspaper articles in four languages make up a distinctive dust jacket, giving the vignettes a more journalistic feel. The collection had a very small print run and only 170 copies were released for sale - this is a rare copy signed by Ernest Hemingway himself.