Description

Signed vintage photograph, shows an unidentified man on horseback, 8 x 10 inch, signed and inscribed by Ernest Hemingway in blue ballpoint ink "My old friend Bill Bridge*. - I sold old Baldy and hung up my saddle, and then I bid farewell to the god-damn cattle - Best always, - Ernest Hemingway" - on the verso an autograph rhyme signed by Hemingway to Bill, mostly based on an old cowboy song `The Old Christholm Trail`and later bawdy versions of the same, attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph of Ernest Hemingway on a safari (altogether 16,5 x 11,75 inch), with mild creases and bumped corner tips - in fine condition.



* It seems likely that Bill Budge was a hunting friend of Hemingway.