True at First Light cover, Scribner 1999

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True at First Light (1999)

Ernest Hemingway · Scribner, New York

Publisher Scribner Year 1999 ISBN 9780684849218

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Who published the True at First Light 1999 hardback?: Scribner, New York, in 1999, in hardback.

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