For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - Charles Scribner's Sons 1940 HC/DJ.
Condition: Used. VG. Dust jacket shows significant losses and chipping, tears and soil, creasing and so forth. Boards have fading, light soil, titles at spine are bright. Gap between spine and binding, but binding is completely intact.
No splits or loose pages. Inscribed as a Christmas gift on front endpaper. Interior contents are clean throughout. Without the "A" on the CR page.
Hardcover bound in tan cloth, black and red titles to spine.
471 pages.
1st Edition.

Tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. Told primarily through the thoughts and experiences of Robert Jordan, a character inspired by Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan is an American who travels to Spain to oppose the fascist forces of Generalísimo Francisco Franco. A superior has ordered him to travel behind enemy lines and destroy a bridge, using the aid of a group of guerrillas who have been living in the mountains nearby. Robert Jordan encounters one of those in their camp, María, a young Spanish native whose life has been shattered by the outbreak of the war. His strong sense of duty clashes with both Republican leader Pablo's unwillingness to commit to a covert operation and his own joie de vivre that is kindled by his newfound love for María. The novel graphically describes the unutterable brutality of civil war.