A Farewell to Arms

  • New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929
By Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. First Edition, second or third printing, per Grissom, with disclaimer; in jacket B without the additional blurbs and lacking the "Katharine" misspelling. Dust jacket married based on offsetting and Grissom notes jacket B published with the sixth printing. Octavo (19.5 cm); publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket with printed signature of Cleon in image, retaining original price ($2.50); [4],355,[1]pp. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with slight chipping and several short closed tears; general rubbing; moderate but extensive toning to verso. Wear to extremities of boards with brief exposure; soiling and scuffing; labels dulled with loss to spine title. Front board gives a little but overall sound. Minor spotting and toning to interior; overall still a Very Good copy in a presentable and well-preserved dust jacket.

Grissom A.8.1.b-c and Hanneman 8A.

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