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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's buff cloth, stamped in black and red. Near Fine with offsetting and tape ghosts to endsheets, pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped first issue dust jacket without the photographer's name listed on the rear panel, with light wear at the extremities and several tape repairs made to tears (the largest being 2" along the bottom of the rear flap fold) at the blindside, and a faint crease to the front flap. A bright copy.

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.