“THAT MUSICAL CRYSTAL-CLEAR STYLE, BLOWN LIKE GLASS FROM THE WHITE-HEAT OF VIOLENCE”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF HEMINGWAY’S A FAREWELL TO ARMS, THE ONLY ONE OF HIS WORKS SO ISSUED
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Tall octavo, modern full black morocco gilt, uncut.
Signed limited first edition of Hemingway’s “consummate masterpiece,” number 155 of only 510 copies signed by him.
"Probably [Hemingway's] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and magical" (Connally 60). "A Farewell to Arms was the novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters… [it is], in fact, the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway's novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway's best gifts as a writer" (Mellow, 377-79). The only signed limited first edition of any of Hemingway's works. Hanneman A8b.
Text fresh and clean. A handsomely bound copy.