Author: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wartime Reprint Edition)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [c.1940s]. Hardcover. A later printing of Ernest Hemingway's enduring classic of the Spanish Civil War. This variant binding likely issued during the wartime paper shortages of the 1940s, based on it having fewer pages than usual and lower quality papers. --- Bound in maroon gloss paper-covered boards, Hemingway facsimile signature on front cover in blind, gilt-stamped spine titling and yellow topstain. Laid in are both flaps and back panel of dust jacket (with famous photographic portrait of Hemingway at the typewriter by Lloyd Arnold). --- With conspicuous sunning to spine, wear to cover extremities and prior owner's signature penciled to rear paste-down; interior is otherwise unmarked and tightly-bound.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); [6], 410 pages. Good in Poor dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature
Price: US$ 23.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87949