8vo. (Slight marginal toning, slight spotting.) Original black cloth, printed gold labels on upper cover and spine (spine lightly sunned, some rubbing to labels, some minor wear with a few chips, a few tiny wormholes to lower cover); dust jacket (some overall toning and minor soiling, chipping and a few short tears, vertical crease along spine panel). Provenance: Kat Skiles (signature on front flyleaf).

FIRST TRADE EDITION, with "1929" on the title-page and the scribner's seal on the copyright page, FIRST ISSUE, without the disclaimer on page [x]. In the FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the "$2.50" price and misspelling of "Katharine Barclay" on the front flap. A Farewell to Arms, set during the Italian campaign of World War I, has been adapted for stage and film several times. The title is taken from a 16th-century poem by dramatist George Peele. Connolly, The Modern Movement 60 ("His first full-length novel and probably his best"); Hanneman A8a.