INSCRIBED BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in first-issue dust jacket, inscribed by the author, “For Mae —— with best regards, Ernest Hemingway.”
"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. Grissom A.17.1.a. Publisher's advance postcard laid in.
Interior clean, cloth with light toning to spine. Bright, unrestored dust jacket with only light rubbing to spine, light edge-wear. A desirable inscribed copy in near-fine condition.