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London: Scribners, 1940. First Edition, First Issue dustjacket designed by Neely, lacking photographer's name at rear panel. Hemingway returned to critical acclaim with this intense novel of the Spanish Civil War. Basis for the 1943 classic Technicolor film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Almost Near Fine, red at spine a but rubbed, colorful vintage bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good plus dustjacket, some nicking and wear at spine ends and flap corners, few short closed tears and creases.

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.