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8vo. Original beige buckram cloth near fine in a good to very good 1st issue 1st state dust jacket. This the First Edition First state with the Scribners A on the verso of title page. The date of 1940 matches the date on the copyright leaf There is an embossed in black Ernest Hemingway signature on the front cover. The front flap has a price of 2.75 , this jacket has wear on the edges, and a small open tear as well, the first issue jacket has no photographers credit in name on the verso of the jacket later issue give a name for the photographer. rare thus Basis of the great movie starring Gary Cooper as its hero a personal friend of Hem with whom they shared adventures in Idaho and the West. Ingemar Bergman co starred in the film about the Spanish Civil War, in which Hemingway was an on the scene War correspondent. One of his most popular books and most famous. Nobel Laureate.

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.