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  "For Ruth and Malcolm, from their child producing house guest who is very fond of them": Rare Association Copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls; inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to his cousin Ruth Lowry

  HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

  For Whom the Bell Tolls.

  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.

  First edition, early printing of Hemingway's third novel, a tragic exploration of love, duty, and the futility of war. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to his cousin on the front free endpaper, "For Ruth and Malcolm, from their child producing house guest who is very fond of them (what a lousy dedication when there is so much to say) Ernest Hemingway." The recipients, Ruth White Lowry (1884–1974) and her husband William Malcolm Lowry (1884–1953), were longtime residents of Kansas City, Missouri, and integral members of Ernest Hemingway’s extended Midwestern family. Ruth, the daughter of William White and Mary Hall White, was a first cousin of Grace Hall Hemingway, the author’s mother. This made her Ernest’s first cousin once removed, though their families were close enough that Hemingway referred to her simply as “Cousin Ruth.” The White and Hall families had deep Midwestern roots—Ruth was educated in Kansas City and was part of the city’s civic and cultural life throughout the early twentieth century. When Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, returned from Paris to the United States in 1928, they came to Kansas City for the birth of their first child, Patrick Hemingway, who was delivered a...

  Price: $17,500.00     Item Number: 149834

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  “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it”: First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

  HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

  For Whom the Bell Tolls.

  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.

  First edition, first printing of Hemingway's third novel, a tragic exploration of love, duty, and the futility of war. Octavo, original publisher's tan cloth. With the first printing issue point of Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket without the photographer name on the rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very sharp example.

  Price: $4,500.00     Item Number: 150382

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