5/12/2023 0 Comments A farewell to arms 1929 edition![]() ![]() ![]() Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. ![]() Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Eleanor Havre from her friend Ernest Hemingway Paris October 18 1929." Near fine in a very good first state dust jacket with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. First edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. ![]()
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