Description
Signed limited edition of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
Octavo, [x], 355pp, [1]. Half-bound in vellum, with title in gilt on black morocco label affixed to spine. Blue-green paper covered boards. Matching green endpapers, untrimmed edges. Scribner’s Seal on copyright page. Solid text block, light rubbing to corners, sunning to spine. Faint dampstain visible along bottom edge of spine, front cover, and central portion of text block. No impact to text. Lacking the original black and red slipcase, and original glassine wrapper. Housed in a green striped slipcase.
(Grissom A.8.1.a) (Hanneman A8b)
One of 510 limited edition copies: 500 for public sale and 10 for the author’s presentation. This copy is numbered 376. Signed by Ernest Hemingway on the limitation page.
This limited edition piece was issued simultaneously with the trade edition in dust jacket. It is the only signed limited edition issue of Ernest Hemingway’s works.
A Farewell to Arms guaranteed Hemingway’s legacy as a great American writer, becoming his first bestseller and a memorable novel on the tragedies of World War I.
