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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, first edition, first printing, in first issue dust jacket, Scribner's, 1940, "A" on copyright page, and no photographer's name listed under Hemingway photograph. Very good plus condition in a very good plus dust jacket. Provenance BENETTA M. SCIUTTO – Benetta D. Merner, before marrying Charles William Sciutto in 1940 Benetta D. Merner was the daughter of GARFIELD D. MERNER and DELIGHT MERNER. Born August 9, 1907 – Died February 9, 1990 Benetta Merner Sciutto was a graduate of Berkeley University with a degree in Education. GARFIELD D. MERNER, 1882 – 1972, was a prominent industrialist and cousin of MARTHA GELLHORN. [Gellhorn is the connection to Ernest Hemingway, having been one of Hemingway's wives.] GARFIELD MERNER was vice president and general manager of Willia, R. Warner & Co., St. Louis Laboratories, 1908 – 1920. Garfield Merner was the founder and vice president of the Merner Lumber Company, 1923 – 1928. Merner was also a director of the…

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.

First edition copies are usually marked with the letter 'A' and the statement 'First Edition' on the copyright page.