His First Best-Seller
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Farewell to Arms. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.
8vo, pp. [x], 355, [1]; a very good copy in the publisher’s black cloth, gold paper labels, unpriceclipped first-issue dustjacket (with the incorrect reading ‘Katharine Barclay’ and the price $2.50), worn and chipped at edges, a little tanned.
First edition, first printing, without the disclaimer on p. [x] and with the Scribner’s seal on the copyright page. A Farewell to Arms, ‘the premier American war novel’ (Reynolds), was derived from Hemingway’s own experience on the Italian campaign in WWI, and was his first best-seller.
Hanneman 8A.