Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom The Bell Tolls, inscribed

Hemingway, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940

8vo. Publisher's nubby beige cloth, spine stamped in red, lettered in black; small patches of foxing, primarily to upper cover, inscription on supplied leaf. Dust jacket, without the name of the photographer to back cover; slightest creasing to joints and edges, head and foot of spine with some small tears and minor loss, spine lightly toned. Collector's black cloth slipcase.

First edition of Hemingway's great novel, with a warm presentation inscription.

Written throughout 1939 in the wake of the Spanish civil war, the novel emerged from Hemingway's experiences as a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance on the front. The title draws from John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: "...And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."

Hemingway has inscribed this first edition, first issue to Victor Mori, "from his friend Ernest Hemingway."

REFERENCE:

Hanneman A18

PROVENANCE:

Victor Mori (presentation inscription) — Pat and Ruth Dowling (bookplate)