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Buenos Aires: Editorial Claridad. 1956. Reprint of the Argentinean edition. Reprint of the Argentinean edition. Inscribed by the author to the Czech-American photographer, composer and adventurer Eduard Ingris. Later green cloth with the original upper wrapper laid down to the upper board, incorporating the original endpapers, titles in gilt to the spine. Housed in a green card slipcase. Publisher's spine panel tipped in at the rear. A very good copy, the binding square and tight. The contents, with the unavoidable toning of the text block are otherwise clean throughout. Housed in the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the half title "To Eduard Ingris. / with admiration wishing / him all good things / Ernest Hemingway". The 1956 publication date of this volume is significant, as it was in May 1956 that Ernest Hemingway first met Eduard Ingriš in Cabo Blanco, on the north coast of Peru. Ingriš, an adventurer, composer…

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.