Ernest Hemingway

A first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.

• Ernest Hemingway (American).
• New York: Scribner's, 1940.
• Octavo.
• 471 pages.
• In the first state dust jacket, publisher's coarse calico grain cloth with facsimile of the author's signature in black on the uppers cover in custom half-morocco clamshell box.

Hemingway's celebrated novel of the Spanish Civil War, difficult to find in such nice condition, as any rubbings stands out against the black background, and the red and blue of the spine are generally found faded.