For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest
Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by
Ernest Hemingway - First edition points of issue.
Pages: 471
Price: $2.75
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1940
Copyright page: Stated, "Copyright 1940 by
Ernest Hemingway"
First Edition Total Publication:
Approximately 75,000
First Edition Points of Issue: The first
printing of this book has an "A" and the Scribner's seal on the
copyright page. The first edition dust jacket does not have a
credit under the photo of Hemingway on the back of the dust
jacket. See photo examples below.
Size: 8.5" x 6"
Bound: Tan cloth boards with Hemingway's
signature embossed on the front cover, red backgrounds with
black lettering on the spine.
Dedication: This book is for
Martha Gellhorn
 
Copyright page with the letter A and
Scribner's Seal and back cover without credit for photo.
First Edition Library Copies
The First Edition Library released a facsimile of For Whom
the Bell Tolls that replicates a true first edition.
These books have a note on the copyright page stating the book
is a facsimile with a renewal copyright date of 1968, the dust
jacket for these books have the letters FEL on the bottom of
the back flap, but otherwise perfectly replicate the first dust
jacket, so collectors should always check for these letters
and/or attempts to remove or cover over these letters.
Description: In 1937 Ernest Hemingway
traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North
American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the
greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the
Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in
the International Brigades attached to an anti fascist guerilla
unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and
courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In
his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his
superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant
travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in
blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun
Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work
at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate,
moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal
reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the
manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater
in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than
any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the
best war novels of all time.
Fim Adaption
Feature Film: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Paramount,
Release Date: July, 1943
Running Time: 170 minutes
Executive producer: B.G. DeSylva
Produced and directed by Sam Wood
Screenplay by Dudley Nichols
Starring Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan , and Ingrid Bergman as
Maria
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