{"product_id":"for-whom-the-bell-tolls-ernest-hemingway-1st-english-edition","title":"For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway — 1st English Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, Jonathan Cape, 1941\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. 462.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopies 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the brutal, unforgiving backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53741283967315,"sku":"4048-RM-F-VG-9","price":65.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260609_144521.jpg?v=1781017241","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-ernest-hemingway-1st-english-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}