For Whom the Bell Tolls
Cape, 1941.
First UK edition. Publisher's presentation binding of half blue morocco with gilt lettering and ruled decoration on the spine. Gilt rules to cover. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bain & Co. binder's signature to reverse of front endpaper. A near fine copy with a little tanning to the edges of the boards and a touch of fading to spine.
The binding of the copy is unrecorded by either of Hemingway's bibliographers, but is almost certainly publisher commissioned as it is stamped A.W.Bain & Co., who was the same trade binder that Cape used for the binding up of the standard copies of the first UK edition and uses the the same lettering and device on the spine. It is probably one of a small number produced for presentation or distribution among key Cape staff.
"For any other writer it would have been a great masterpiece. As it is, it is the best fictional report on the Spanish Civil War that we possess." - Anthony Burgess
Burgess p. 29
Stock ID: 46506
£1,250.00
