For Whom The Bell Tolls. New York: Scribner’s, 1940. First Edition in First State Dust Jacket. Letter ‘A’ on copyright page denoting the first edition. First state dust jacket with no photographer’s name on back and the original price of $2.75 is intact on the front flap. Publisher’s beige cloth with Hemingway’s facsimile signature stamped in black on the front cover and red and black lettering on the spine. An excellent copy, the jacket without any chipping, the contents pages in nice bright condition throughout. Housed in collector’s solander box.

A definitive collector’s copy of Hemingway’s masterpiece on the Spanish Civil War.

The novel stands as the crowning achievement of Hemingway’s career, written after he covered the Spanish Civil War as a correspondent and drawing directly on that experience. Many of the characters in this graphic exploration of the brutality of war are based on real people, some semi-fictionalised, others drawn directly from life. Upon publication, it was hailed as “a tremendous piece of work” by The New York Times and is widely regarded as one of the greatest war novels ever written  

It was adapted for screen in 1943, directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.