HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

£2,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Farewell to Arms. First edition, first printing, distinguished by the lack of the legal disclaimer which appeared on page x in the second and third printings.Based on Hemingway's experiences as an ambulance driver at the Italian Front during the First World War, it was written at the peak of his success and met with wide acclaim. The critic James Aswell offered particularly lavish praise: "I have finished A Farewell to Arms, and am still a little breathless, as people often are after a major event in their lives. If before I die I have three more literary experiences as sharp and exciting and terrible as the one I have just been through, I shall know it has been a good world" (cited in Bloom, p. 5).

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.