For Whom the Bell Tolls. London: Cape, 1941. First UK Edition. Handsomely bound in half black morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, compartments embellished & lettered in gilt. A fine bright copy.

An elegant copy of the first UK edition; the American edition was published in the previous year.

The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.