![]() It was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936?1939). As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. ![]() ***'For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. ***It is a heroic and generous tale.' (Quote taken from the dustwrapper of a previously sold UK first edition). The main theme is the same, that is, the novel is of war and love. It is worth waiting more than ten years for. ***'This is the first full length novel that Hemingway has published since "A Farewell to Arms". ![]() The binding is secure but there is some splitting to the fragile paper at the half-title page. With a contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper: 'Bessie Davies. Some pages just lightly bumped at the top corner. ![]() With rough-edged paper to the fore edge of the page block, as is usual with American editions. ![]() The lettering is still clear but the red backing panel is rubbed and worn. ***Very good in oatmeal textured cloth-covered boards with black titles on a red background to the spine. First American edition published by Charles Scribner's & Sons in 1940 - an early printing, but without the 'A' on the printer's page that would denote a first printing. ![]()
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