Author: HEMINGWAY, Ernest
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Beige cloth with black spine lettering. 471pp. Very good. Spine a tad age toned and rubbed, else internally tight and near fine; lacks dust jacket. Tight, quite nice possible first edition, with "A" on copyright page -- but as even bibliographer C. Edgar Grissom notes in his "Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography" (2011), "Not surprisingly, I have discovered no way to separate the BOMC and Scribner's copies other than by jacket." Interestingly, tipped to blank leaf facing title page is a fine glossy 5" X 7" black-and-white photograph, a unique frontispiece: A modern (likely 1970s) print of a studio portrait from the 1945 Western drama "Saratoga Trunk" showing Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper -- stars of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" -- posed dramatically in a parlor setting in 1875 New Orleans; lower left corner bears a blue rubberstamped signature of Bergman. .

Keywords: American Literature


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