Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms, first edition, first printing

Hemingway, Ernest

A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929

8vo. With the Scribner's seal to title verso, without the legal disclaimer to dedication verso; lightly toned. Publisher's black cloth, gold printed labels to upper cover and spine, fore-edge untrimmed; gold printed label to spine vertically creased, some offsetting with remnants of tape to front free endpaper, upper pastedown, and front flap of dust jacket, lower pastedown split near gutter. Original pictorial dust jacket priced "$2.50" and with misspelled "Katharine Barclay" on front flap; jacket splitting at lower fold, toned at extremities, spine lightly sunned, chipped at head and foot with some loss to corners. Housed in a custom clamshell case.

First edition, first printing of Hemingway's seminal novel of disillusionment in the face of loss and war, in the first issue dust jacket.

Hemingway's novel is renowned not only as one of the best works of fiction to emerge in the aftermath of World War I, but also one of the most important works of literature of the twentieth century.

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