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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1940. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Charles Scribners Sons; New York, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, tan cloth binding with black lettering on front board and spine, bit of scattered foxing to board and spine buckram, couple of small soiled spots bottom front board, sunning to spine and board margins, stress crease to spine, deckle fore-edge, text block edges a bit pulpy, some age toning to pages, bit of discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers, small rub mark bottom text block corner, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, small soiled spot bottom fore-edge and bottom text block edge, in a Very Good, First Issue, some handling/scuff mark to panels, few tears and chips along edges, chipped top and bottom spine edges, Mylar protected, Dust Wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 471pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. 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.

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