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A Farewell to Arms
por Hemingway, Ernest
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/No Jacket
- Livreiro
-
Chico, California, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition (same date, no additional printings) in the Second State (having the disclaimer). Black cloth binding with titling on the spine and front cover in black within gilt paper labels. Clean text; 355 pages; very bright and fresh. Gift inscription (1957) on the first free endpaper. Lacking the dustjacket. Light rub to head and foot of spine, which is very slightly faded; labels dull but perfectly readable.Small chip to the front top corner. A solid copy of this iconic work, despite these minor imperfections. In an archival plastic protector.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopse
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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Avaliações
Em Dec 18 2015, um leitor disse:
It has a good plot, but its boring.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 006293
- Título
- A Farewell to Arms
- Autor
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- No Jacket
- Edição
- First American Edition.
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1929
- Dimensão
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Modern Literature;
Termos da venda
Quercus Rare Books
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Sobre o Vendedor
Quercus Rare Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2006
Chico, California
Sobre Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossário
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- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
