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Farewell to Arms
by HEMINGWAY, Ernest
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- first
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Full description:
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition, first issue, with publisher's seal on copyright page and no legal disclaimer on p. [x]. In first state of the "Cleon" pictorial dust jacket. With the correct first issue point on the jacket (with the name of the heroine, Catherine Barkley, misspelled "Katharine Barclay" on the front flap) And with the price of $2.50 on front flap. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 188 x 132 mm). [10], 355, [3, blank] pp.
Original black cloth with gold paper labels ruled and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Spine label slightly rubbed. Binding a bit skewed. Back inner hinge is cracked but firm. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. In the original color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with some chipping to top and bottom edges and and along creases nd a few closed tears. A few creases along front and back panel of jacket. Some larger chips to top of front panel. Jacket spine a bit darkened. Overall a good copy.
Cyril Connolly named this title as one of the most important modern books in his list, The Modern Movement. This is one of the most famous novels concerning the tragedy of World War I, and was inspired by Hemingway's own experiences as an ambulance driver during the war.
Hanneman A 8B.
HBS 69140.
$1,500.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition, first issue, with publisher's seal on copyright page and no legal disclaimer on p. [x]. In first state of the "Cleon" pictorial dust jacket. With the correct first issue point on the jacket (with the name of the heroine, Catherine Barkley, misspelled "Katharine Barclay" on the front flap) And with the price of $2.50 on front flap. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 188 x 132 mm). [10], 355, [3, blank] pp.
Original black cloth with gold paper labels ruled and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Spine label slightly rubbed. Binding a bit skewed. Back inner hinge is cracked but firm. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. In the original color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with some chipping to top and bottom edges and and along creases nd a few closed tears. A few creases along front and back panel of jacket. Some larger chips to top of front panel. Jacket spine a bit darkened. Overall a good copy.
Cyril Connolly named this title as one of the most important modern books in his list, The Modern Movement. This is one of the most famous novels concerning the tragedy of World War I, and was inspired by Hemingway's own experiences as an ambulance driver during the war.
Hanneman A 8B.
HBS 69140.
$1,500.
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
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69140
- Title
- Farewell to Arms
- Author
- HEMINGWAY, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- American Literature|Modern Firsts|Twentieth Century Literature
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