First edition, first issue, with the famous misspelling
A Farewell to Arms.
New York: Scribners, 1929.
Price:
$5,000.00
First edition, first issue with publisher's seal on copyright page, no disclaimer, Katharine Barclay on the inside flap and reviews for The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women on the back. 355 pp. 8vo. Black cloth with printed spine and cover labels. Near fine with unclipped dust jacket with some edgewear and toning. Hanneman 8A; Connolly 60; Grissom 181A.
Item #379560
"His first full-length novel and probably his best .... Its success was so enormous that it may be said to have ended Hemingway's influence as a writer. After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence" (Connolly).
Set in the Italian campaign during World War One, and based in part on his own experiences, Hemingway's novel is a love story between American soldier, Frederic Henry, and the nurse Catherine Barkley (whose name is famously misspelled on the front flap).
First serialized in Scribner's Magazine in 1929, it was reviewed enthusiastically that year in the New York Times, and later again by Gore Vidal in 1960. Censors took a dimmer view of some of the language employed, replacing certain words with dashes throughout the text.
Item #379560
"His first full-length novel and probably his best .... Its success was so enormous that it may be said to have ended Hemingway's influence as a writer. After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence" (Connolly).
Set in the Italian campaign during World War One, and based in part on his own experiences, Hemingway's novel is a love story between American soldier, Frederic Henry, and the nurse Catherine Barkley (whose name is famously misspelled on the front flap).
First serialized in Scribner's Magazine in 1929, it was reviewed enthusiastically that year in the New York Times, and later again by Gore Vidal in 1960. Censors took a dimmer view of some of the language employed, replacing certain words with dashes throughout the text.
