HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

A Farewell To Arms.

"To Richard W. Day, he alleging that it is to be given to his mother; a decision heartily approved by the author": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Novel A Farewell To Arms; Lengthily Inscribed by Him

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

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First edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Richard W. Day, he alleging that it is to be given to his mother; a decision heartily approved by the author, Ernest Hemingway." The recipient, Richard W. Day was the brother-in-law of Hemingway's fishing and drinking partner in Mexico Gordon Lewis, who was a writer based out of Florida. Near fine in a near fine first state dust jacket with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

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. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.