Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 First printing of the first edition, in first state dust jacket. Basis for the 1943 classic Technicolor film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Book with light toning to spine and endpapers, else in fine condition; first issue dust jacket with moderate edge wear, a closed tear to the upper back cover / bottom back fold, and light rubbing to folds, else fine.

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.