# Is "in our time" by Ernest Hemingway a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of in our time by Ernest Hemingway (Three Mountains Press, Paris, 1924) is identified by: Lowercase title 'in our time' (prose vignettes only, no full short stories). True first of the prose-vignette text.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Lowercase title 'in our time' (prose vignettes only, no full short stories)
- Printed on Rives handmade paper; tan boards with a red newsprint-collage design, front board lettered in black; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Hemingway by Henry Strater
- Numbered, with a limitation statement
- The intended run was 300 copies but a printing error reduced it to roughly 170 released
- Distinct from the 1925 Boni & Liveright 'In Our Time'
- Publisher imprint reads Three Mountains Press, Paris
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| Publisher | Three Mountains Press, Paris |
| Year | 1924 |
| True first | — |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Lowercase title 'in our time' (prose vignettes only, no full short stories) |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Lowercase title 'in our time' (prose vignettes only, no full short stories). Printed on Rives handmade paper; tan boards with a red newsprint-collage design, front board lettered in black; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Hemingway by Henry Strater. Numbered, with a limitation statement. The intended run was 300 copies but a printing error reduced it to roughly 170 released. Distinct from the 1925 Boni & Liveright 'In Our Time'.

## Is this the true first?
True first of the prose-vignette text. The 1925 New York 'In Our Time' (capitalized, fourteen full stories with the vignettes as interchapters) is a separate, expanded book that is itself collectible.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book club. The 1925 Boni & Liveright 'In Our Time' first issue carries the dust jacket with endorsement blurbs by Ford Madox Ford, Gilbert Seldes, John Dos Passos and Donald Ogden Stewart; it is Hanneman A3a.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *in our time* by Ernest Hemingway a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-our-time
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.