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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 1929 First Edition, third printing. This edition was printed only 2 months after the first printing. Some very light wear, but otherwise in incredible condition for a book of this age. Tight binding, clean pages with some toning as to be expected of this period. Gold label to front board clean and displays a touch of wear. Gold label to spine has some darkening and scuffing, however text is clear still. No disclaimer present.
Previous owner inscription in clean script on front pastedown: "To Ester/ As a toke on friendship/ June 5, 1930/ From Phil".
A lovely edition for a Firsts library.
Previous owner inscription in clean script on front pastedown: "To Ester/ As a toke on friendship/ June 5, 1930/ From Phil".
A lovely edition for a Firsts library.
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
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4839
- Title
- A Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Men without Women, The Sun Also Rises, In Our Time, Green Hills of Africa, The Old Man and the Sea
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
Biblio member since 2006
SANDY, Oregon
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Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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