HEMINGWAY - WHO BEAT THE BELL Issue 1

HEMINGWAY Ernest

TO WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Translated by Bronisław Zieliński

Warsaw 1957, Spółdzielnia Wydawn. Czyetlnik, pp. 631, [1]; format 13x20 cm

First Polish edition!

For Whom the Bell Tolls - a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940 in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons publishing house.

Next to the short story The Old Man and the Sea, it is considered the author's most important work. It tells the story of a guerrilla unit fighting on the side of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). It is a psychological study of a man witnessing the horrors of war.

HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER. COVERS SURROUNDED BY BLIND-STAMPED BORDER. SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND A SIGNBOARD WITH GILT LETTERING. HAND-COLORED PAPER MARBLED ON THE COVERS, ALL PAGE EDGES MARBLED. INTERIORS OF COVERS FINISHED WITH BLIND EMBOSSED DECORATIONS.

BDB condition-/ A BEAUTIFUL piece.