Description
The first edition, first printing of For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, with the first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [10], 471pp, [1]. Publisher’s beige cloth, facsimile of Hemingway’s signature on front cover, title printed over red label on spine. Binding Variant A. Top edge dyed brown, untrimmed fore-edge. First printing with Scribner’s ‘A’ on copyright page. Ownership label on front free endpaper, bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. Dampstain affecting rear endpapers, the last chapter, and the top edge of the text block. Includes the first issue dust jacket, with $2.75 retail price on the front flap, and lacking the “Photograph by Arnold – Sun Valley” credit on rear panel. Chipping to edges of dust jacket, previously folded along spine, large dampstain to verso, date stamp along top edge of rear flap, a fair example. (Grissom A.17.1.a)
