![]() ![]() Some soiling to pastedowns and endpapers including sticker residue to first free endpaper. Boards rounded toward fore edge, corners and spine ends bumped. True first edition with Scribner’s seal on copyright page and no disclaimer. ![]() Reality, however, provided the pair with a happier-if-less-literary ending: von Kurowsky refused Hemingway’s marriage proposal following his recovery and return to America, outliving him by over 20 years.Ĩvo, 355pp, black cloth boards with title and author gilt to front and spine. Equal parts tragic romance and existential meditation, Ernest Hemingway ‘s real-life romance with his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky served as the template for large parts of A Farewell To Arms’ narrative. Inspired in part by Hemingway’s own wartime experiences assisting medics from the Italian army, the story follows a wounded ambulance driver through his recovery and romance with his attending nurse. First edition, first printing.Ī well preserved first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s modern masterpiece contemplating violence, love, death, and meaning in the wake of the First World War. ![]()
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