A FAREWELL TO ARMS Ernest Hemingway, 1st Edition First Print 1929, No Disclaimer
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:7146946 | Modified Item: No |
| Signed: No | Year Printed: 1929 |
| Personalized: No | Special Attributes: 1st Edition |
| Original/Facsimile: Original | Author: Ernest Hemingway |
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By Ernest Hemingway Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 First Edition, First State
The book has all points of a true first edition, first print: * Scribner colophon on the copyright page. * The verso of the dedication page does not have a legal disclaimer.
This book is in good condition. Hardcover has som...e white spots on back board, shelf wear at corners. Label on spine is rubbed. Binding is good, no crack, no loose page. There is no ripped or missing page. Pages are clean, no foxing, no stain. There is no hand-writing or marking on pages except a bookplate on inside front cover (see photo).
Book comes with a facsimile (reproduced) of the first state dust jacket. The new dust jacket is enclosed in a plastic protector.
Make sure to visit our store for more listings of rare and collectible books. As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know.The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss. --Alix Wilber
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By Ernest Hemingway Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 First Edition, First State
The book has all points of a true first edition, first print: * Scribner colophon on the copyright page. * The verso of the dedication page does not have a legal disclaimer.
This book is in good condition. Hardcover has som...e white spots on back board, shelf wear at corners. Label on spine is rubbed. Binding is good, no crack, no loose page. There is no ripped or missing page. Pages are clean, no foxing, no stain. There is no hand-writing or marking on pages except a bookplate on inside front cover (see photo).
Book comes with a facsimile (reproduced) of the first state dust jacket. The new dust jacket is enclosed in a plastic protector.
Make sure to visit our store for more listings of rare and collectible books. As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know.The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss. --Alix Wilber
#1121
*********************Item will be well packed and quickly shipped with Delivery Confirmation once payment is received!!!Please check our Feedback and Bid with confidence!!! Please check-out our other first edition and rare books
Please email us if you have any question. Thank you for visiting our store.
