A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition [Signed By Sean Hemingway]

New York: Scribner, Publishers, 2012. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition July 2012; number-line beginning w/2. Signed by Ernest's grandson Sean Hemingway on custom bordered bookplate adhered at half-title page: "Sean Hemingway". With a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway and a new introduction by Sean Hemingway. This is the Hemingway 'Library' Edition by the Hemingway Copyright Owners. Presented here is the definitive edition of A Farewell To Arms including Hemingway's 1948 introduction, early drafts, and all of his many alternative endings. Deep dark blue boards, cream cloth spine wrap, crisp gilt impressed spine titles, fine. Pages fine, no writing. Includes eight-page glossy photo plate section of Hemingway's handwritten revisions and notes for this title. Also, handwritten drafts of this novel at front and back endpapers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Matte dust jacket, fine; unclipped 27.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket matches original Cleon wrapper in general design at front panel and spine; back panel features rare portrait of Hemingway and a quote: "If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially." Here is Ernest Hemingway's third full-length novel following The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises. The story recounts the romance between Frederic Henry, an American soldier, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Heavily autobiographical, the plot was directly inspired by Hemingway's relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky in Milan. Catherine's parturition (childbirth) was inspired by the intense labor pains of Pauline in the birth of Patrick - Ernest' second wife and second son - and the real-life Kitty Cannell inspired the fictional Helen Ferguson. The priest was based on Don Giuseppe Bianchi, the priest of the 69th and 70th regiments of the Brigata Ancona. Printed in the U.S.A. Large 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" design. 330 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Contributor. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Book.