copyright 1940; The Blakiston Company publishers; hardbound with black boards and gilt lettering on spine; author's name imprinted on front cover; quite good condition; minor edge wear on boards (pic); no dust jacket.
 
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.
 
The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.