Hemingway, ErnestBiblio.com
Hemingway, ErnestBiblio.com
A Farewell To Arms.
1929151376New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First edition of this early Hemingway classic which established him among the American masters. Octavo original black cloth with gilt labels to the spine and front panel. First issue with Scribner's seal to title verso and without legal disclaimer. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good first state dust jacket with expert restoration and the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box and folding chemise. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldweary demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion this gripping semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. It is the basis for the 1932 film bearing the same name directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gary Cooper Helen Hayes and Adolphe Menjou. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
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