Books

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. first. hardcover. fine/very good. SIGNED first edition, with 1940 on title and copyright page and Scribner's "A". Book fine. Dust jacket very good, couple of tears and some wear. Housed in a custom-made fold-out case.

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.