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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
- Seller
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
"A Farewell to Arms" by ERNEST HEMINGWAY with its original dust jacket. 1957; Charles Scribner's Sons "Modern Standards Series"; New York. With an Introduction by Robert Penn Warren.
Condition:
Clean covers and spine; sharp corners; the right edge of the front cover lifts upwards just a bit. Light staining at the right edge of the back cover by the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The text pages are clean and white and appear unread with no issues found; the end papers and pastedowns have foxing and tanning from the dust jacket flaps; the front end paper and pastedown each have a name written in pen. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition. The dust jacket has foxing on the covers, flaps, and spine; 1" tear at the top-right corner of the spine; there are a few small tears at the spine and flap corners...overall the dust jacket is in Good condition.
Condition:
Clean covers and spine; sharp corners; the right edge of the front cover lifts upwards just a bit. Light staining at the right edge of the back cover by the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The text pages are clean and white and appear unread with no issues found; the end papers and pastedowns have foxing and tanning from the dust jacket flaps; the front end paper and pastedown each have a name written in pen. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition. The dust jacket has foxing on the covers, flaps, and spine; 1" tear at the top-right corner of the spine; there are a few small tears at the spine and flap corners...overall the dust jacket is in Good condition.
Synopsis
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
Reviews
On Dec 18 2015, a reader said:
It has a good plot, but its boring.
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Details
- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6711
- Title
- A Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Modern Standard Authors
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction; War / Military;
Terms of Sale
CraigsClassics
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About the Seller
CraigsClassics
Biblio member since 2018
Hudson, New Hampshire
About CraigsClassics
My store offers a curated selection of antiquarian books in a variety of topics with an emphasis on classic literature and children's classics. I take pride in providing great customer service with prompt replies to offers and inquiries, careful packaging and next-day shipping. Based in scenic southern New Hampshire.
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