First edition book: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. First edition, first printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover bound in the publisher's black cloth with gilt paper printed labels, with first-issue dust jacket (with "$2.50" price on front flap and misspelled "Katharine" in flap text), 5.5 x 7.75, 355 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with light toning to the bright jacket, spine darkened, and minor creasing at the head and foot of the jacket's spine.
From the Hemingway Library: '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. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.'
