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Inscribed by author: "Stanley Kimmel's book. Please do not steal it--"

Inserted: card with Chinese characters on the back, on front: "Oriental Sketches by Stanley Kimmel, Vivide Pictures in vers libre of Scenes and Life in the Orient, Ready in February, 'The Publishers of Little Books', San Francisco, Cal."

Kimmel served as an ambulance driver with Hemmingway.


Stanley Preston Kimmel (dates unknown) was author of among other works Poems and Fantasies (Los Angeles: Grafton, 1916), Improvisations (San Francisco: Publishers of Little Books, 1919), Souvenirs (Publishers of Little Books, 1919), The Strange Voyage (Publishers of Little Books, 1919), and Leaves on the Water: Sketches and Tales of the Orient (New York: Seltzer, 1922), the last of these with a preface by Sadakichi Hartmann (see D12). ‘From the Book of a Japanese Urchin’ appeared in Asia, November 1920, p. 956.



These were the Paris years, when the Hemingways made friends with Stanley and Elsie Kimmel. In 1975, Hemingway scholar Lawrence Broer arranged through the Kimmels to interview Hadley Mowrer for an article in the Lost Generation Journal , featuring the Kimmels (present here). In it Broer describes the Kimmels’ relationships with the Hemingways and poet Carl Sandburg. Also included in this grouping is a first edition of Stanley Kimmel’s book of poetry, The Strange Voyage (1921). Having grown up in coal-fields of Southern Illinois, Kimmel possessed “a vision marked by rueful humor and a passion for tolerance… earning him the title of ‘Sandburg of the Coalmines’” (Broer, 11). F