![]() ![]() 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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