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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1940 First edition, first issue in original first state dust jacket INSCRIBED by ERNEST HEMINGWAY to Arthur Howard, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Arthur Howard was a noted geologist for the UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Inscribed on November 14, 1946. "A" on copyright page. Book in astoundingly fine condition -- book, dust jacket, and internal pages almost as if new. COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1940.. First edition, in the first state of the dust jacket.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket, preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box.. Some of the usual abrasion to the red on the spine, else a fresh, unworn copy. There is a little darkening to the pastedowns. The dust jacket has a little use to the edges, and the blue on the backstrip is very slightly faded. . 8vo,. Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper "with all best wishes" by Ernest Hemingway.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. first. hardcover. fine/very good. SIGNED first edition, with 1940 on title and copyright page and Scribner's "A". Book fine. Dust jacket very good, couple of tears and some wear. Housed in a custom-made fold-out case.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1940. Inscribed by Mr and Mrs Hemingstein First edition, early printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Muriel and Owen Johnson, with all best wishes, Ernest Hemingway". Additionally inscribed by the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's third wife and the dedicatee, as "Mrs Hemingstein" below her dedication: "and also for Missy and Johnny, with love from Mrs Hemingstein". Ernest Hemingway variously signed letters as "Huck von Hemingstein", "Ernest Buck Hemingstein", and "Huckmanship von Hemingstein", "Hemingstein" being a schoolboy nickname that stuck (Ross). Gellhorn adopted it as a pet name for Hemingway, using it a letter sent in February 1937: "Hemingstein, I am very fond of you. Marty" (quoted in Kert, p. 294). The two began an affair later that year while reporting on the civil war together in Spain. They married on 22 November 1940, the same year he published this work. Before their marriage, Gellhorn drafted a mock… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. For Whom the Bell Tolls combines two of Hemingway's recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. "This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of American literature Hemingway has struck universal chords, and he has struck them vibrantly" (J. Donald Adams). It was the basis for the 1943 film directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress; however, only the Greek actress Katina Paxinou won an Oscar for her portrayal of Pilar.

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, Scribners, 1940, first edition but a later printing without the publishers designation for such, a tight vg copy in fine facsimilie dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author. 

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 471pp.Tweed beige cloth, red spine label. Letter "A" appears on the copyright page, indicating First Edition, first printing. Hemingway's signature in blue ink on the title page. No marks or writing in the book. Toning to othe endpapers and pages, The bottom corners are worn through. The unclipped pictorial jacket has the original $2.75 price on the front flap. There are chips across the top and bottom of the spine, creases at the extremities as well. Photo of Hemingway on the rear panel (photographer's name is not present) indicating First Edition, first state jacket. This is the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer 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. From the collection of noted Theatre Critic Michael Feingold. . Signed By Ernest Hemngway. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Octavo.