For Whom The Bell Tolls.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Item Number: 145480

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.

First edition, first printing of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To André Braunschwig with sincere good wishes Ernest Hemingway.” Featuring a curious issue point: publisher’s error resulting in three different leaves with their bottom portions removed and new textual sections pasted on, pages 421, 427, and 435 are the affected. Presumably, the full sheet was damaged at some point before the printing process, kept in stock, and made its way, possibly unnoticed, into the first print run. Because of the way the printing lays on the altered pages, it is clear that printing occurred after the sheets were repaired. Near fine in an excellent near fine first-issue pictorial dust jacket without the photographer’s name to the rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. Unique, rare, and desirable inscribed by Hemingway.

For Whom the Bell Tolls combines two of Hemingway's recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. "This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of American literature Hemingway has struck universal chords, and he has struck them vibrantly" (J. Donald Adams). It was the basis for the 1943 film directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress; however, only the Greek actress Katina Paxinou won an Oscar for her portrayal of Pilar.