It is the basis for the 1932 film bearing the same name directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, and Adolphe Menjou. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldweary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionthis gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. 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. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Eleanor Havre from her friend Ernest Hemingway Paris October 18 1929.” Near fine in a very good first state dust jacket with the misspelling “Katharine Barclay” in the blurb on the front flap.
Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. One of 31,050 books of the first printing (page x is blank and. Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. $40,000.00 Item Number: 138836įirst edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. A beautiful first edition in Fine condition with slightly toned endpapers and paste-downs.
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