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. A Farewell to Arms, 1st Edition Hardcover Januby Ernest Hemingway (Author) 110 ratings Hardcover 56.24 21 Used from 12.97 1 New from 56.24 2 Collectible from 360.00 Paperback 29.57 9 Used from 7.40 3 New from 29.57 1 Collectible from 11.95 Mass Market Paperback from 11.73 6 Used from 11.73 1 New from 38. Of the initial print run, 510 copies were numbered and signed by Hemmingway. The 355-page first editions have no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, To Eleanor Havre from her friend Ernest Hemingway Paris. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. First edition identification Scribner's first published A Farewell to Arms in New York in September 1929 in a print run of about 31,000 copies.

Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldweary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionthis gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. 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.

Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition, first printing of Ernest Hemingways A Farewell to Arms. I drove coming back and went fast with the empty car to find the man from Pittsburg. $1,500.00 Item Number: 132544įirst 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. 1,500.00 Item Number: 132544 London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. A FAREWELL TO ARMS and deliver the wounded at the two hospitals.

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