{"id":237,"date":"2019-09-15T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:46:06","slug":"15-back-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/exhibition\/1-conceptualization\/2-research\/3-dialog\/4-inspiration\/5-rewriting\/2-new-ending\/7-alterations\/8-original-version\/9-re-issue\/10-style\/11-fact-checking\/12-production\/13-proofing\/14-choices\/15-back-story\/","title":{"rendered":"15 &#8211; Back Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), collector<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis Henry Cohn, Hemingway&#8217;s first bibliographer, a collector of his work, and private press publisher, was responsible for the facsimile publication of Hemingway&#8217;s &#8220;Bastard Note&#8221; that Cohn playfully issued as a commemorative greeting in December of 1931. When Hemingway saw the page proof and placement of the new publisher\u2019s legal disclaimer that appeared in the second printing of the first edition of <em>A Farewell to Arms<\/em> (located on the dedication verso or \u201cbastard\u201d page), he wise-cracked, &#8220;how did they happen to use this word rather than illegitimate child?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All items from the Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Ernest\nHemingway collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>A\nFarewell to Arms.<\/em> <strong>First edition, second printing<\/strong>. New York:\nGrosset and Dunlap, 1929<\/li><li>\u201cBastard note,\u201d original \u201celectro\u201d\n<strong>type proof<\/strong> of publisher\u2019s legal disclaimer,\nwith autograph note and signed by Ernest Hemingway, October 1, 1929<\/li><li>\u201cBastard note,\u201d <strong>facsimile<\/strong> of foundry proof, privately printed by Louis\nHenry Cohn, December 1931. \u201cThis is number 1\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), collector Louis Henry Cohn, Hemingway&#8217;s first bibliographer, a collector of his work, and private press publisher, was responsible for the facsimile publication of Hemingway&#8217;s &#8220;Bastard Note&#8221; that Cohn playfully issued as a commemorative greeting in December of 1931. When Hemingway saw the page proof and placement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":235,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}