BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 12 “The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For” 09HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in firstissue dust jacket. “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). First issue, with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket without photographer’s name. Hanneman A18a. Book in fine condition, in a bright, near-fine dust jacket with slight wear to extremities. An attractive copy. “If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?”: Splendid First Edition Of Hemingway’s To Have And Have Not 10HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500 First edition, first issue of Hemingway’s first novel since A Farewell to Arms, basis for the Howard Hawks film co-scripted by Faulkner and featuring Bogart and Bacall together for the first time—a very handsome copy. This novel, Hemingway’s first since A Farewell to Arms was published eight years earlier, follows the life and adventures of Harry Morgan from rum-running to revolution. Brimming with criticism directed at American capitalism and the bureaucracy of the Roosevelt administration, the novel explores social circumstances and situations in Key West, “that paradise of the ‘haves’ and purgatory of the ‘have nots.” “In To Have and Have Not, Hemingway for the first time showed an interest in a possible solution of social problems through collective action” (Hart, 327). Grissom A.14.1.a. Book in fine condition, in a near-fine dust jacket with minor edge wear, slightly more noticeable to outer front edge and foot of spine. A bright, appealing copy.
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