For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition with Original Dust Jacket, 1940

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher’s beige cloth boards, first issue dust jacket. Presented in a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case.  This is a first edition of the classic Hemingway novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls.For Whom the Bell Tollsis 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. This book is a first edition, first printing, with Scribner’s capital “A” on the copyright page, with a first issue dust jacket, without the photographer’s name below the portrait of Hemingway on the rear panel. The book is presented in a new custom archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case.  Hemingway first started writing For Whom the Bell Tolls in Cuba and later finished it in Sun Valley, Idaho. It was published in October of 19