Inscribed to a Cuban Anti-Fascist Senator
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1940, but 1944.
Price:
$13,500.00
About the item
Third American edition, second printing. 410 pp. 8vo. Black paper covered boards with signature blindstamped on cover and printed title on spine. Some wear and loss to paper of spine and along edge, in near fine jacket from the same edition, with offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket, pages evenly toned, and Havana bookseller's ticket "La Bohemia Bookstore" and censor's stamp to endpapers.
Item #377793
Hemingway's tale of love amidst the Spanish Civil War, inscribed on the ffep: "To Senator Agustin Cruz with sincere admiration and gratitude for all that he has done for those who fought for the Spanish Republic / Enest Hemingway / On Board "Pilar" / La Habana 21 Julio 1946"
Senator Agustin Cruz Fernandez was a Cuban Republican and Oppositionist political party leader from Santa Cruz, who was Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of Miguel Mariano Gomez, Cuba's first constitutional President since the downfall of the Machado régime in 1933. White Secretary
during the period 1936-1939, Cruz worked to expel Falangist political figures from Cuba, on the grounds that they were spreading anti-Democratic messages, eventually leading the push to in 1941 to banish all consular officials from the totalitarian regimes of Spain, Germany, and Italy.
The Bohemia Bookstore in Havana was where Hemingway bought his books. Other inscribed copies of For Whom the Bell Tolls also were purchased there.
