For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway — 1st English Edition

£65.50

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway — 1st English Edition

Name: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway — 1st English Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 4048-RM-F-VG-9
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Publication: London, Jonathan Cape, 1941

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 462.

Condition Report: Very Good. The original blue cloth binding remains fundamentally tight and square, displaying only minor shelf-wear and light bumping to the corners and spine ends. The gilt tooling to the spine, while exhibiting standard age-related dulling, remains entirely legible and unoxidised. Internals are highly presentable; the page block retains much of its original brightness with only faint age-toning to the untrimmed fore-edge and standard minor browning to the endpapers, remaining free from any obtrusive spotting or foxing. A handsome, structurally sound copy.

Catalogue Note: First UK edition, first printing. Hemingway’s magnum opus of the Spanish Civil War was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape the year following the American Scribner edition, produced in complete conformity with the authorized wartime economy standards.

This copy features a handsome 'Book Society' bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, bearing the name 'J. F. Shorter'. The bookplate itself is notable for featuring the classic Georgian library illustration designed by the celebrated British artist Rex Whistler.

Copies are becoming increasingly difficult to source with the original blue cloth boards remaining this clean and tight without the protective presence of a dust jacket.

Set against the brutal, unforgiving backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls remains Ernest Hemingway's definitive masterpiece of political and personal sacrifice. The narrative follows Robert Jordan, a young American dynamiter attached to a republican guerrilla unit in the Guadarrama Mountains, as he is tasked with the seemingly impossible mission of destroying a strategic bridge. Over the course of three intense days, Jordan grapples with the morality of his cause, the inescapable shadow of death, and a profound, fleeting romance with a Spanish refugee named Maria.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Ernest Hemingway

Book Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Modern Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 462

Book Publication Year: 1941

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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