First Edition of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, In Jacket

Ernest Hemingway. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition; first issue (with Scribner's "A" on the copyright). Publisher's beige cloth with facsimile signature stamped in black on the front cover, spine lettered and ruled in black over red blocks, top edge stained brown, and fore-edge untrimmed; in first state unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket (with photo of Hemingway and without the name of the photographer). 8vo; [x], 471, [1]pp. Hanneman A18.A.

8 1/2 x 6 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection

One of Hemingway's best known novels, and his longest work.

Boards extremely clean and bright with only minor wear including a couple of small spots to the edge and mild bumping to tail; slight separation from text block and a few marks to page edges; interior extremely clean with only a few signs of age and handling wear such as slight toning and occasional spot of grime, and with the previous owner's information on free endpaper; the jacket with some chips and small tears to edges (some tape repaired on verso), creasing, and light scuffing and marks, now in removable protective mylar cover. Very good plus in very good jacket.