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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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- first
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, Fifth Printing. First edition, fifth printing. Measures approximately 7.5" x 5.25", 355 numbered pages. Comes with brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket is included for protection and display.
This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Gilt label on spine has moderate scuffing. Moderate staining to both boards. Front hinge is cracked causing slight overbite to textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean.
Early in 1918, Ernest Hemingway joined the Italian Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. During his time abroad, Hemingway had two experiences that affected him profoundly and that would later inspire one of his most celebrated novels, A Farewell to Arms.
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Inventory #(N8-115).
This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Gilt label on spine has moderate scuffing. Moderate staining to both boards. Front hinge is cracked causing slight overbite to textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean.
Early in 1918, Ernest Hemingway joined the Italian Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. During his time abroad, Hemingway had two experiences that affected him profoundly and that would later inspire one of his most celebrated novels, A Farewell to Arms.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory #(N8-115).
Synopsis
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
Reviews
On Dec 18 2015, a reader said:
It has a good plot, but its boring.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4948
- Title
- A Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Fifth Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
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- Cracked
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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