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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing with the Scribner "A" present on the copyright page. With its original first issue dust jacket without the photographer credit on the rear panel. Measuring approximately 8.5" x 6" with 471 numbered pages. The book is in very good plus condition. Minor wear to the extremities. Textblock is clean and well preserved. The original dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Moderate chipping and creasing to the spine ends and extending to the front panel. Original $2.75 price present on the front flap. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of Hemingway's biggest literary triumphs. Written in 1939 and finished in 1940, the first edition was published in October of that year, with a print run of 75,000 copies. The novel was inspired by Hemingway's experiences as a journalist in Spain during its civil war. The plot centers on an American dynamiter who joins forces with an anti-fascist…

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.