"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway -- First Edition Library

A near-perfect copy of the 1940 first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway – at a fraction of the cost of this hard-to-find collectible. In the late 1980s, The First Edition Library (FEL) began publishing high-quality facsimiles of unique first editions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries based on literary importance, historical significance, and author recognition. The degree of accuracy maintained in the duplication of original first editions was nothing less than extraordinary. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dustjacket, finish, and texture as the originals. Even mistakes, known as first edition points, were duplicated as erroneously printed. The only alteration to the original was to include "FEL" on the rear dust jacket flap, and the book itself contained a block of text appearing on the copyright page identifying the printing as a facsimile reprint of the original. The First Edition Library did, however, make improvements to the o