Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell To Arms , First Edition
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A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway . Charles Scribner’s Sons : New York. 1929. First edition , first printing.
A well preserved first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s modern masterpiece contemplating violence, love, death, and meaning in the wake of the First World War. Inspired in part by Hemingway’s own wartime experiences assisting medics from the Italian army, the story follows a wounded ambulance driver through his recovery and romance with his attending nurse. Equal parts tragic romance and existential meditation, Ernest Hemingway ‘s real-life romance with his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky served as the template for large parts of A Farewell To Arms’ narrative. Reality, however, provided the pair with a happier-if-less-literary ending: von Kurowsky refused Hemingway’s marriage proposal following his recovery and return to America, outliving him by over 20 years.
8vo, 355pp, black cloth boards with title and author gilt to front and spine. True first edition with Scribner’s seal on copyright page and no disclaimer. Boards rounded toward fore edge, corners and spine ends bumped. Some soiling to pastedowns and endpapers including sticker residue to first free endpaper. Book block toned. Original dust jacket with back copy mentioning “The Sun Also Rises” and “Men Without Women”, and with the misspelling of “Catherine” as “Katharine” and $2.50″ price on the front inner flap. Wear with losses to corners and edges, worst to front wrap top edge and spine ends. Darkening and spine and interior flap edges. Scrape along back spine joint, tear with small loss on back wrap mid “Hemingway”. Very good condition in a good condition.
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