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Budapest: Révai Irodalmi Intézet, 1945. First Hungarian edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Octavo. 336, 378pp. Original textured tan cloth over black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped publisher's device on cover and black lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Light blue endpapers. Translated by István Sötér. Cover by Vera Csillag, typeface Bodoni. First Hungarian edition of Hemingway's 1940 masterpiece. Drawing on his own experience as a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance, Hemingway graphically describes the brutality of the civil war in Spain. Text in Hungarian. DJ with wear along edges, chipping and creasing along edges, more pronounced at top of volume one, and bottom of volume two. Binding with light wear along edges, light scuffing along lower edges of paper-covered boards. inked initials JE on both half-titles. Block lightly age-toned. DJ in overall good-, binding in good, interiors in very good condition.

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.