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Hemingway's posthumous safari memoir, edited by his son Patrick, was first published by Scribner in New York on 7 July 1999. The first British edition is the Heinemann hardback, London 1999, 319 pages, bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and issued in a pictorial dust jacket. A first impression carries a number line that includes 1 on the copyright page; if the lowest number is higher, it is a later impression. Heinemann sheets were also sold in Australia, and Australian issue copies may have an unpriced jacket. Uncorrected proofs in paper covers came before publication and do not count as the first edition.
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William Heinemann, London, in 1999, in hardback.
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