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Ernest Hemingway signed first edition of ''For Whom the Bell Tolls.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940. First edition, first printing indicated by Scribner's ''A'' on copyright page. Hemingway signs and inscribes on the front free endpaper, ''To Dr. Nathan Ratnoff / with sincere good wishes / Ernest Hemingway''. Considered one of the finest novels of the modern movement, Hemingway's work mulls the impact of our lives and deaths upon each other. The ultimate answer seems to lie in the title, taken from John Donne's ''Meditation'': ''No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'' Book, lacking the dustjacket, is in very good condition with some foxing. Boards are uniformly toned with some soiling. Signature page is very bold with clear handwriting.
Ernest Hemingway Signed First Edition of His Masterpiece, ''For Whom the Bell Tolls''
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