For Whom the Bell Tolls. by HEMINGWAY, Ernest - 1940

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1940. Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine lettered black on red ground, facsimile signature to front board in black, top edge brown, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom black half morocco solander box. Spine a little rubbed, a couple of marks to front cover, hinges cracked but holding, text block sound. A very good copy in the jacket with repair to spine panel at front fold, minor loss to spine spine ends, chips to tips, rubbing, nicks and creasing to extremities. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper, "To Julia Quesada, with all good wishes. Ernest Hemingway. June 18 1953. San Francisco de Paula, Cuba." Hemingway's Cuban house, Finca Vigía, is located in San Francisco de Paula, a suburb of Havana; it was there that he began work on For Whom the Bell Tolls and he bought the property with some of the first royalties from the book. It became his primary residence after the Second World War, until the changing political landscape prompted him to leave for the last time in July 1960. With the relevant issue points: the Scribner's "A" to colophon, and in the first issue jacket without the photographer's credit.