A Farewell To Arms. by Hemingway, Ernest - 1929

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First English edition of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters, with the first issue point of "seriosu" on page 66, line 28. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. It is the basis for the 1932 film bearing the same name directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, and Adolphe Menjou.