HEMINGWAY ErnestABAA
Hemingway ErnestABAA
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
1940WRCLIT50601New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons 1940. Cloth. Spine somewhat rubbed and darkened a bit tanned and a trifle shaken but a sound copy. Later printing of the first edition without the 'A'. Inscribed by Hemingway on the half- title: "To Max Showalter with all good wishes Ernest Hemingway." Accompanied by two other items: a another copy first printing bearing Max Showalter's ownership signature on the free endsheet endsheets darkened at gutters else very good in defective but largely complete dust jacket; and b Mary Hemingway's HOW IT WAS New York: Knopf 1976 first edition near fine in very good dust jacket inscribed by Mary Hemingway to Showalter in Los Angeles in the year of publication. Showalter a.k.a. Casey Adams enjoyed a long career in film and television and was a feature player at 20th Century Fox favored by Darryl Zanuck who required Showalter's assumption of the 'Adams' stage name. Though he was associated with a long list of films and television programs from the 1940s-1980s we find no record of his credited association with a film adaptation of Hemingway's work. He did however originate the role of Ward Cleaver the Beaver's old man which later passed to Hugh Beaumont. Chas. Scribner's Sons hardcover books
