8vo. Original beige cloth stamped in black and red; dust jacket (very minor marginal chipping).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. In a FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, without the photographer credit on the rear panel. For Whom the Bell Tolls was written throughout 1939 in Havana, Key West, and Sun Valley, Idaho, and is based on Hemingway's experiences as a field reporter during the Spanish Civil War. It became an immediate success upon publication. The book was slated to win the 1941 Pulitzer Prize however Columbia University president and head of the board Nicholas Murray Butler found the novel to be offensive; as a result, no award was given that year. Hanneman A18a. A VERY BRIGHT COPY.