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First edition, first printing (Scribner's "A" on the copyright page), in the first issue jacket without the photographer's credit on the rear panel. Hemingway's novel was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War and is informed by his experiences reporting on the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Many of its characters are based on real people, some semi-fictionalized, others drawn directly from life. This graphic exploration of the brutality of war was adapted for screen in 1943, directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress. Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine lettered in black on red ground, front cover with facsimile signature in black, top edge brown, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Price and bookseller's sticker of the D. W. Robinson Co., LA, on rear flap of jacket. Spine faintly toned, edges lightly foxed; spine panel and extremities of bright jacket a touch foxed, tiny chips to upper corners, edges a little rubbed and nicked, unclipped. A near-fine copy in very good jacket. Grissom A.17.a.

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.