Sale 1922
New York
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3 December 2007
Price realised
USD 3,750
Estimate
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8o. Original beige cloth; pictorial dust jacket (a few marginal short tears to panels, slight creasing and minor chipping to ends of spine panel and corners). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HEMINGWAY on front free endpaper. His calling card pasted pasted to recto of "Books published by Ernest Hemingway." Hanneman A18a.
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