New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. One of 510 copies of the signed, limited edition, printed on large paper. Available simultaneously with the trade edition. A Very Good copy. Original half japon over paper boards with black morocco spine label. Darkening to spine and some cracking to spine label. Sunning along edges of boards. Chip to top edge of half-title, otherwise a clean and attractive copy throughout. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell case.

"Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old, and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from WWI, 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, this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to the novel 39 times to get the words right. The result is what the Washington Times called 'a towering ornament of American literature'" (Hemingway Library).

Grissom A.8.1.a2; Hanneman A8b. Very Good (Item #8096)