A very good copy of a book that is notoriously difficult to find in collectible condition. Book near-fine with just a few smudges to cloth dust jacket with some toning and rubbing to spine, some soiling to rear panel and light edgewear. First issue, with no disclaimer in book and 'Katherine' instead of 'Catherine' on dust jacket flap. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. During the ten-year interim, he had worked effectively as a foreign correspondent and then abandoned that career to devote all his energy to fashioning the understated and pared-away prose style that was his most important legacy to twentieth-century literature' (Donaldson, New Essays on A Farewell to Arms). wrote in his Introduction to a later edition of the novel, A Farewell to Arms more.

Published just as he passed his thirtieth birthday, it brought him the kind of public and critical acclaim he had been seeking since he had decided, in the aftermath of his wounding in 1918, to become a writer. The context of A Farewell to Arms is not simply the First World War. ' A Farewell to Arms made Hemingway a famous author. A superlative copy bound in the original Publishers. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”įIRST EDITION of arguably Hemingway's greatest work. First Edition, limited to 510 copies, of which this is number 497, and SIGNED by the author. Enter the Gungeon Gets Switch Retail Release, A Farewell to Arms Out Now. Seller Rating: Contact seller First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine US 89.50 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. The first are collective storytelling games like Fiasco or For the Queen. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. A FAREWELL TO ARMS Hemingway, Ernest Published by Scribners New York (FEL), 1929 Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, U.S.A. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them.

A farewell to arms first edition