For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, First Blakiston Edition, 1940

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1940. First Blakiston Edition. Rebound in quarter navy leather and cloth boards, with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to the spine, and with a custom archival slipcase. This is the first Blakiston edition of the classic Hemingway novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. For Whom the Bell Tolls is an unembellished, blunt commentary on the nature of war and death. The book draws inspiration from Hemingway’s time as a war correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance during the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway first started writing For Whom the Bell Tolls in Cuba and later finished it in Sun Valley, Idaho. Although the book was first published in October of 1940 by Charles Scribner's Sons, in New York, this particular book was published in Philadelphia by The Blakiston Company. It is a rare, wartime edition with matching first edition printing errors, as sublicensed by the original publisher Charles