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New York, Scribner, 1940. First Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 471 pages; Description: 471 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Americans --Spain --Fiction. Spain --History --Civil War, 1936-1939 --Fiction. References: Johnson, M. De V. First editions (4th ed. ) , p. 236. First printings of Amer. Authors, v. 1, p. 179. With Scribner's indicative 'A' to the colophon.

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.