Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. First edition, limited issue, numbered 160/510. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 355 pages. Signed on the colophon in bold fountain pen, "Ernest Hemingway." Autographic condition: very fine. Book condition: VG-/None, with moderate dampstaining to boards, wear to paper corners, and ownership inscription to half-title page.
From the Hemingway Library: 'Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.' A superb, signed limited edition of what the Washington Times called 'a towering ornament of American literature.'
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