"THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE AND WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR"

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. $16,500.

First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in first-issue dust jacket, inscribed by him on a bookplate, "Ernest Hemingway with sincere good wishes!"

"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. Bookplates, including one inscribed by Hemingway that reads "For James W. Carlin's Copy of [in ink] For Whom the Bell Tolls [in print] This Bookplate is Signed by the Author [in ink] Ernest Hemingway with sincere good wishes!"

Book with faint offsetting to pages 410-11, mild toning to endpaper, minor soiling to cloth with a bit of rubbing and toning to spine. Dust jacket, supplied from another copy, with one spot of abrasion to front panel, shallow chipping to spine ends, faint soiling. A very good copy, desirable with Heminway's signature and inscription.