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Lot 92
Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$3,000 -
5,000
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$7,560
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Lot Description
[Literature] Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First trade edition. 8vo. 355. pp. Original black cloth with gold labels, printed in black, to spine and front board; top and bottom edges trimmed, fore-edge untrimmed; two-inch square shadow or offsetting on front paste-down from something now removed, no evidence of same on front free endpaper; in original unclipped dust-jacket with "Katharine Barclay" instead of "Catherine Barkley" on front flap, designed by Cleon. An astounding copy. Hanneman 8A.