Bradstreet Press ~ California
(Nancy Hoyt)

The Good Lion.
By Ernest Hemingway
1998. Edition of 250.

6.25 x 9.25” with 32 pages. Letterpress printed from MonotypeBembo and Lydian Cursive on Mohawk Super Fine Cover. Illustrations are reproduced from original paintings and one image is set into the cover. Illustrated by Francesca Ivancich Scapinelli.

Written in 1950, The Good Lion was a return to the genre of the fable. We follow the good lion on his sojourn through Africa where he is at odds with the other lions and narrowly escapes death. Back in Venice, the good lion takes comfort in old friends and a glass of pomodoro but finds he has been changed by his experience. This story is Hemingway's response to a direct challenge from Scapinelli, who challenged him to write a children's story for her son.
$175