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Scribner's, 1940. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A fine first edition, seal embossed on flyleaf, back endpaper is split but intact, some stainiing to cover, light tan with red printing on spine, faded. a very sound copy altogether.

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.