19 “The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For” 20HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $5750 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. Slight offsetting to endpapers; dust jacket with minor rubbing and a few short closed tears from upper edge. An exceptionally nice copy. “Man Is Not Made For Defeat” 21HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York, 1952. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6000 First edition of Hemingway’s classic story of Santiago and his epic battle with the marlin and the sharks, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his award of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner, who reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the magazine Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my contemporaries” (Baker, 593-94). “Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else” (New York Times). Hanneman A24a. Very slight rubbing to book extremities; faint dampstaining to one corner of bright dust jacket. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.
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