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The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics

By: Beadle, George & Muriel

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2263983

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board. 1966 Full-Leather. x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full beige morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A description of the science of genetics by George Beadle and his wife Muriel. George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Edw...
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The Dean's December

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1982

Seller ID: 2274130

ISBN: 0060148497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, faint crease on front jacket flap corner. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times.
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The Dean's December (The First Edition Society)

By: Bellow, Saul; Bloom, Allan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2307043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1982 Hard Cover. 377, [1] pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Preface by Allan Bloom, illustrations by Robert Heindel. Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of problems left behind in Chicago. A student had been been murdered and Corde had directed that charges be pressed aga...
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Age of Iron

By: Coetzee, J.M.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1990

Seller ID: 2200388

ISBN: 0436200120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th...
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The Faulkner Reader: Selections from the Works of William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (Complete); Selections from Other Novels; Three Novellas; Nine Stories; The Nobel Prize Address, Etc. (Modern Library Giant G82)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1954

Seller ID: 2265378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Lightly rubbed. 1954 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 682, [2] pp. 8vo. A selection of works by William Faulkner collected in one volume. CONTENTS: Nobel Prize Address, The Sound and the Fury, The Bear (Go Down, Moses), Old Man (The Wild Palms), Spotted Horses (The Hamlet), A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, Dry September, That Evening Sun, Turnabout, Shingles for the Lord, A Justice, Wash, An Odor of Verbena (The Unvanquished), Percy Grimm (Light in August), The Courthouse (Requiem for a Nun).
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The Reivers: A Reminiscence

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1962

Seller ID: 2280907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition (following the limited edition released the same year), with 'first printing' state on copyright page, no book club indicators, and red top stain indicating a trade edition. Lacks jacket. Endpapers very faintly foxed, minimal scuff to bottom corner, otherwise an excellent copy. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkners comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one...
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The Reivers: A Reminiscence

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1962

Seller ID: 2283617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition (following the limited edition released the same year), with 'first printing' state on copyright page, no book club indicators, and red top stain indicating a trade edition. Includes first state jacket (6/62 on flap). Jacket price clipped, 1/2 inch closed tear on jacket spine head, jacket spine a bit faded. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkners comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is per...
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Selected Letters of William Faulkner (The First Edition Society)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2286128

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor blemish on front board. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, [1], 594 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. a collection of letters by the author of Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasiona...
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The Faulkner Reader: Selections from the Works of William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (Complete); Selections from Other Novels; Three Novellas; Nine Stories; The Nobel Prize Address, Etc.

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1954

Seller ID: 2304961

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor tears and loss along corners. 1954 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 682, [2] pp. 8vo. A selection of works by William Faulkner collected in one volume. CONTENTS: Nobel Prize Address, The Sound and the Fury, The Bear (Go Down, Moses), Old Man (The Wild Palms), Spotted Horses (The Hamlet), A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, Dry September, That Evening Sun, Turnabout, Shingles for the Lord, A Justice, Wash, An Odor of Verbena (The Unvanquished), Percy Grimm (Light in August), The Courthouse (Requiem for a Nun).
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Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 324)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1960

Seller ID: 2306236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus (stated). Includes original jacket with $1.95 list price. 1960 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 306 pp., 8-page terminal publisher ad. A collection of short stories by the Nobel Prize winning author of Light in August, As I Lay Dying, etc. Includes: Barn Burning; Two Soldiers; A Rose for Emily; Dry September; That Evening Sun; Red Leaves; Lo!; Turnabout; Honor; There Was a Queen; Mountain Victory; Beyond; Race at Morning. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the ...
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A Fable (Pulitzer Prize 1955)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2307038

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 462 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Robert J. Lee. This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. A historical novel of World War I set in France, A Fable was written in 1954, and won Faulkner the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955 (the first novel ever to win both). He spent over a decade on A Fable, and considered it his masterpiece when it was completed. Historicall...
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The Sound and the Fury (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2307053

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Top corner and top and bottom page edge very lightly abraded. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 337 pp. 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Bill Oakes. The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th century European novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner'...
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The Reivers: A Reminiscence

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1962

Seller ID: 2307683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Book club edition. Jacket stained with minimal discoloration to board edges beneath, jacket rubbed. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkners comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his familys retainers, to steal his grandfathers car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which...
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Absalom, Absalom! (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML271)

By: Faulkner, William; Breit, Harvey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1951

Seller ID: 2307684

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. Jacket toned, jacket edges rubbed, jacket price clipped, ink number on front endpaper. 1951 Hard Cover. xii, 7-378, [16] pp. 8vo. Includes introduction by Harvey Breit. Chronology, genealogy, and map of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha Co., Mississippi follow text. A novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during, and after th...
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Light in August (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 88)

By: Faulkner, William; Rovere, Richard H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1950

Seller ID: 2304979

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket (405 titles on reverse). Ink stamp on front endpaper, crayon number on title page, jacket lightly rubbed and toned. 1950 Hard Cover. xiv, 444 pp., 6-page terminal publisher ad. Introduction by Richard H. Rovere. Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.
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The Gods are A-Thirst (Les Dieux Ont Soif)

By: France, Anatole; Allinson, Alfred; Maurois, Andre

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1942

Seller ID: 2261286

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine and slipcase edge along opening toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1942 Hard Cover. xii, 205 pp. A historical novel set during the French Revolution, by the Nobel Prize winning French author. This edition is an authorised translation from the French by Alfred Allinson, with an introduction by Andre Maurois and illustrations by Jean Oberle.
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Two Forsyte Interludes

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 2204828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Page ridges faintly foxed. 1927 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 74 pp. The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles -- one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature -- chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The author has drawn a fascinating and accurately detailed picture of the British propertied class. Often i...
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Maid in Waiting

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 2204832

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Very good in fair jacket. Two inch chip to jacket front and spine obscuring author name and text, large stain to jacket front. 1931 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 362 pp. Maid in Waitingis the first novel in the third and final volume of theForsyte Saga Chronicles, the seventh of the nine novels. Following the quite climatic ending to the previous volume, we put the Forsytes to one side and concentrate instead on the Cherrell family, cousins of the Monts; the family Fleur Forsyte married into. Fleur and her husband Michael having now been marr...
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The Counterfeiters with Journal of The Counterfeiters (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 327)

By: Gide, Andre; Bussy, Dorothy; O'Brien, Justin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1955

Seller ID: 2297536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minimal pencil marginalia, jacket edges a bit rubbed. 1955 Hard Cover. 432, [6] pp. Includes the full novel, translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, plus Gide's journal, translated from the French with annotations by Justin O'Brien. A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France. Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of ant...
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Close Quarters: A Novel

By: Golding, William

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1987

Seller ID: 2276299

ISBN: 0374125104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Top edge lightly foxed, small sticker on front endpaper. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 281, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning author of Lord of the Flies. The enthralling sequel to Golding's Booker Prize-winning 1980 novel, Rites of Passage, continuing the story of the 18th-century fighting ship carrying passengers and cargo from England to Australia.
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The Assault on Reason

By: Gore, Al

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, The Penguin Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2272364

ISBN: 0739484613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear. 2007 Hard Cover. 308 pp. Nobel Peace Prize winner, bestselling author, activist, and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influential public intellectuals in America today. The Assault on Reason takes an unprecedented look at how faith in the power of reason 'the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate' is now under assault. The marketplace of ideas, once open to everyone through the printed word, has been corrupted by the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith. By leading us to an understanding ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2180722

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early reprint (lacks 'A' on copyright page). Boards lightly rubbed & toned, front & end matter lightly foxed, ink name & date ('A.B. Russell Christmas 1940') on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 471 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth, black stamped titles, red panels on spine. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist gueri...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1945

Seller ID: 2206634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early printing in variant binding. Includes original jacket with $2.75 price on flap. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, including a 1/2 inch internal chip from spine. 1945 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, black stamped titles, red panels on spine. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifasc...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2264516

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks jacket. Red title panels lightly rubbed as usual, pencil name on front endpaper, brief ink gift note on rear endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2283482

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early printing (no A or publisher emblem). Red spine panels lightly rubbed, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2285242

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Early printing. Includes original jacket with $2.75 price on flap. Light stain on top edge and front endpapers, ink name on front endpaper, jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla u...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2290429

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition (Hanneman A18A). Lacks jacket. Spine faded and a bit rubbed, light ring stain on front board. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2291370

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Hanneman A18A). Lacks jacket. Spine toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper,. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2303164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Hanneman A18A). Lacks jacket. Spine and edges a bit toned, 1 inch split to front endpapers along hinge but binding holding firmly. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2307607

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Hanneman A18A). Lacks jacket. Spine toned with rubbing to titles. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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