Our First Edition, First state copy is a superb addition to a collector s library.
The second was the 1957 Charles Vidor-directed version starring Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones and Vittorio De Sica. The first film adaptation was the Frank Borzage-directed 1932 version starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes this won the Oscar for Charles Lang s superb cinematography. An unsuccessful attempt starring William Holden and Nancy Olson). (Actually three, since it was remade by director Michael Curtiz in 1951 as Force of Arms with the time period updated. A Farewell to Arms is the basis for two film adaptations. A most presentable example of the title with the three points of issue: publisher s seal on the copyright page, Catherine Barkley misspelled Katherine Barclay on the dust jacket front flap, and no disclaimer on page. A much better than very good indeed First Edition, First State copy in its visually pleasing original dust jacket of one of the celebrated author s most acclaimed novels, called by literary critics everywhere one of the greatest novels of that generation.
It is the basis for the 1932 film bearing the same name directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, and Adolphe Menjou. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Eleanor Havre from her friend Ernest Hemingway Paris October 18 1929." Near fine in a very good first state dust jacket with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. First edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters.
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