A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
First edition, second issue of Hemingway's classic, one of the best novels to emerge from World War 1 and the work which secured Hemingway's literary reputation. Second issue denoted by the legal disclaimer on page x, which didn't arrive in time for the first issue and was subsequently removed after this issue. In the matching second issue dust jacket. (Hanneman, A, 8A)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Publisher's original black cloth boards, bronze title labels lettered in black to front board and spine; pp. (x), 355. A good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy, although a touch shaken and over opened. Wear and rubbing to boards with a bit of fraying to extremities, bronze labels rubbed and worn with some loss to the spine label. Stray pen mark to verso of flyleaf, a few small stains to rear endpapers, else internally clean. Jacket shows general light shelfwear, rubbing and toning with traces of soiling to back panel. Protected in archival mylar.