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New York: Scribner, Publishers, 2012. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition July 2012; number-line beginning w/2. Signed by Ernest's grandson Sean Hemingway on custom bordered bookplate adhered at half-title page: "Sean Hemingway". With a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway and a new introduction by Sean Hemingway. This is the Hemingway 'Library' Edition by the Hemingway Copyright Owners. Presented here is the definitive edition of A Farewell To Arms including Hemingway's 1948 introduction, early drafts, and all of his many alternative endings. Deep dark blue boards, cream cloth spine wrap, crisp gilt impressed spine titles, fine. Pages fine, no writing. Includes eight-page glossy photo plate section of Hemingway's handwritten revisions and notes for this title. Also, handwritten drafts of this novel at front and back endpapers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Matte dust jacket, fine; unclipped 27.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket matches… Read More

American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, "To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway." A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. Although set in war, the book is a essentially a love story between the young lieutenant bearing striking similarities to Hemingway, and a young British nurse. Both a commercial and critical success, which later became an acclaimed film. No dustjacket. Very good condition with a nice bold inscription and signature.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Limited Edition: #165/510. Hardcover. Octavo, 355 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's half vellum over green cloth board with black gilt morocco lettering label on spine. Housed in later, some mild rubbing and toning to slipcase. "#529" written on spine of slipcase. Light rubbing to spine and corners of boards, light soiling to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Interior with moderate consistent foxing and finger-staining. Limited Edition, one of 510 signed copies, this being number 165, signed by Hemingway. Hemingway signature offset onto half-title. Shelved in Case 3. The only signed, limited edition of any of Hemingway's works. Derived in part on Hemingway's experiences in Italy during World War I, the character of Catherine Barkley was based on a nurse who cared for him when he was wounded serving as an ambulance driver at the front. They had planned to marry, but she ultimately rejected his proposal when he returned to the United… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Near Fine. Number 244 of 510 copies of the signed, limited edition, printed on large paper. Available simultaneously with the trade edition. Original half japon, over paper boards, black morocco spine label. Spine head bumped, small skinning to head of spine label, binding faintly toned. Slight rubbing and wear to slipcase. Housed in the publisher's leaf-patterned slipcase, and additionally housed in a custom yellow morocco clamshell. "Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old, and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from WWI, 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, this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to the novel 39 times to get the… Read More