Fine Books & Manuscripts

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition, fist state dust jacket. Publisher’s tan linen stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket. All points for first state present (Scribner’s “A” and no mention of photographer’s name in caption of the photo on the rear panel of dust jacket). 8vo. Tears with losses at spinal ends and front fold, slight chipping to corners, front pastedown soiled at gutter; uncommonly vibrant colored spine label. Hanneman A18a.