For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway - 1940 A

Description: From Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway First printing in an original first issue dust jacket Publisher & Year: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 - Edition: True first printing book with “A” on the copyright page. First issue dust jacket with no photo credit on the bottom left of the rear panel. The jacket retains the original price of $2.75 on the front flap. - Description & Condition: Publisher's oatmeal cloth, stamped in red on the spine, lettered in black, 471 pp. Hinges and binding sturdy. Erased pencil on the foredge of the front flyleaf, else free and clear of writing and underlining. Notable staining to the first several pages, as pictured, beginning right before the first page and proceeding to varying degrees to page 11, with an occasional minor stain throughout. An unfolded dogear on page 105. Pages largely clean, however. The original dust jacket has chipping at the extremities, rubbing at the joints, and the spine is lightly faded. - “There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls- Inventory ID: 712 - 641 - 698

Price: 350 USD

Location: North Haven, Connecticut

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