For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway, Ernest - 1940

This is a first edition, later-printing book clad, somehow, in a first-printing, first-state dust jacket, that I found in the wild from an owner who apparently bought the book new. My position is that if anyone were to try any funny stuff, it would be to get a (cheap, readily-available) jacketless copy of a first-printing book, and stick it in this (rare, unavailable) jacket, creating a (very expensive, fake) true-first-edition copy. This is the opposite. If anyone switched the book, they suck at dishonest bookselling. This is the version of the book bound in tan buckram with the standard red and black text and design on the spine. The dust jacket is uncut with original price featuring a photo of Hemingway on the back without the photo credit. All particulars check out for both the book and the dust jacket, providing no clues as to why this particular book ended up in this particular jacket. Tight, square, solid binding without significant issues except an ex libris pastedown, a hint of foxing at the gutters of front and back hinges, and that the front hinge is starting, but barely, at its bottom edge. You could throw this book like a brick through a window, if you wanted for some reason to do that. The dust jacket has done a creditable job protecting the book, and has taken some consequences. The front top corners are missing some paper. The bottom front edge and spine are missing some as well. The top spine has chipping, and creasing is elsewhere evident. The red ink on the spine has faded somewhat. Please see the photos for the details. Regardless, this is the ultra-rare first-state dust jacket for the first edition, first printing of this book, and since I'm not of a nature to wrap a jacketless first-printing copy in it to create a Frankenstein Hemingway, that's good enough for me.