Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8vo. Publisher'...
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Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.8vo. Publisher's beige cloth with author's facsimile signature stamped in black on upper cover; original pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black custom smooth leather velvet-lined clamshell case featuring a silhouette of the dust jacket portrait of Hemingway at his desk.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner's "A" to the copyright page. First state dust jacket with photograph of Hemingway at his typewriter on the back without the photographer's credit.
Condition: Spine ends lightly bumped; endpapers slightly toned. Dust jacket unclipped (priced "$2.75"), rebacked and laid down, retouched and repainted, with some offsetting to the verso from the spine.
Reference: Hanneman A18a.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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