A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, Later Printing, 1929

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, Later printing. Octavo, Rebound in quarter leather and cloth boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In a new archival cloth slipcase. Presented is a first edition, later printing of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York, in November of 1929, this later printing is presented rebound in quarter leather and cloth boards with gilt tooling, titles, and raised bands to the spine. Set during World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a young American Lieutenant serving as an ambulance driver in Italy struggling through love and war. The story is told through first person narration detailing many aspects of war that would have been very familiar to readers at the time, as the book was published only 11 years after the 1918 armistice. The simple, direct tone his character uses when giving his unromanticized account of the war later