Recipient Robert Gros was a newspaper correspondent during World War II and for years thereafter, eventually interviewing 11 different presidents. First issue, with Scribner's "A" on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket without photographer's name. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of American literature… Hemingway has struck universal chords, and he has struck them vibrantly" (J. "This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in first-issue dust jacket, inscribed by Hemingway to a noted wartime journalist, "To Robert Gross with all best wishes, Ernest Hemingway." Hemingway has crossed out the second "s" in Gros' name and initialed the change by writing above it, "No S EH." After Hemingway's inscription, his wife-and the dedicatee of the work-has added "and Martha Gellhorn." Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY AND MARTHA GELLHORN TO WAR JOURNALIST ROBERT GROS
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