B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S S U M M E R 2 0 2 3 23 "THAT MUSICAL CRYSTAL-CLEAR STYLE, BLOWN LIKE GLASS FROM THE WHITE-HEAT OF VIOLENCE" 23. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, gold paper labels, original dust jacket. $15,000 First trade edition, "rst issue, of the novel that "placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters," in scarce unrestored "rst-issue dust jacket. A beautiful copy. "Probably [Hemingway's] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystalclear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems e#ortless and magical" (Connolly, Modern Movement 60). "The novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters… 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). First edition, "rst printing, with publisher's seal on copyright page, no disclaimer on page x; in !rst-issue Art Deco dust jacket by Cleonike Damianakes, with front "ap misspelling of the heroine's name as "Katharine Barclay" instead of "Catherine Barkley." Appeared simultaneously with a limited edition of 510 numbered copies. Hanneman 8a. Bruccoli & Clark, 178. Grissom A.8.1.a. Book !ne, dust jacket beautiful and nearly !ne with minor rubbing to spine panel only. An exceptional copy.
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