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A Farewell to Arms
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
First UK edition, Second State, Near Fine book with light foxing and offsetting to end pages, touch of foxing to edges page block, and mild toning to pages. Hemingway's third novel that was based on his experiences as an ambulance driver in WWI and subsequent recovery, after being wounded by artillery fire. This copy has been beautifully bound in half leather over marbled, paper-covered boards by Mark Anderson of Panther Peak Bindery, small bindery sticker back paste-down and also with his card laid-in. A Mark Terry facsimile dust jacket has been added in case new owner would prefer jacketed version on shelf display.
Synopsis
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
Reviews
On Dec 18 2015, a reader said:
It has a good plot, but its boring.
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- Squid Ink Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio6462
- Title
- A Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Half leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK first second state rebound in half leather
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Fiction
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