Books

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by author Ernest Hemingway on first blank (following endpaper). Hemingway's signature is crisp, clear, and authentic. First edition, first printing of book ('A' on copyright page); and first issue jacket (omitting photographer's name) complete with $2.75 price. [10], 471 pp Hanneman A18A. The jacket is pristine and crisp, having ony the slightest hints of wear to edges and a faint pencil price on the flap. The book itself is near fine,having only slight darkening to the spine and the usual offset to endpapers. According to Hanneman 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' is the most popular of all of Hemingway's works.

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.