Hemingway, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hardcover, New York: Scribner, 1940. First Edition. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. First Issue with letter "A" on copyright page. Very Good Plus in Near Fine dust jacket. Beige cloth with black lettering and Hemingway's signature stamped on front cover. Minor chipping of DJ spine ends and corners. Original $2.75 price intact. Endpapers and pages tanned with age. Protected in archival plastic. In 1937 Hemingway contracted with the North American Newspaper Alliance to report on the Spanish Civil War. From his front line reporting experience, he wrote this story of a young American attached to a republican guerilla unit as an explosives expert. He wrote the novel in 18 months in Cuba, Wyoming and Idaho. The book was an instant best seller, and is considered, along with THE SUN ALSO RISES, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, and his short stories, as the master at his best. Both party candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election agree. Obama named the book as "one of the three books that have inspired him; and John McCain said the book is his all-time favorite. A bipartisan endorsement. [Book #871]

Price: $2,100.00