NY, Scribner's, 1940. Hemingway's last great novel, a partisan tale of the Spanish Civil War, which he had covered as a journalist, and which was charged with great portentousness in the days leading up to the Second World War. For Whom the Bell Tolls has been called Hemingway's most ambitious novel, and it is the one in which his political convictions reveal themselves most fully: he effectively conveys the idea that a people's freedom is worth fighting, and even dying, for. This passionate defense of the ill-fated Spanish Republic was so compelling that 30 years later, under the Franco government, the book was still entirely banned in Spain; copies were smuggled into the country and passed around surreptitiously. Two owner names on the front flyleaf, some offsetting to the front endpapers, and a bit of rubbing to the spine cloth; still near fine in a very good, first issue dust jacket, rubbed mostly along the spine and flap folds, and inexpertly colored at the extremities, although this is most noticeable on the verso, where there is also one tape repair. [#014494] SOLD