ernest hemingway for whom the bell tolls first edition

Saunders dust jackets were slightly different. That all of these copies were printed and bound by Scribner's and were identical in every respect to the 73,000+ copies issued by Scribner's, including the familiar presence of an 'A'įortunately - or not, given the hanky panky that has ensued over the years - BOMC and S.J.R. Edgar Grissom's Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography, BOMC received 135,000 copies, and 6,000 copies went to Canadian publisher S.J.R. In that same month of September, as documented inĬ. So, let's get back to those Scribner's records, which bring the Book-of-the-Month Club into play. Booksellers chronically mistake book club editions for or deliberately misrepresent them as First After all, book clubĮditions are typically worth little, if anything, in the secondary market, so why bother dwelling on them? The short answer is, if you have a command of book club identification, youĬan avoid a lot of trouble both buying and reselling First Editions. Over the years I've spent a lot of time talking about the Book-of-the-Month Club (and other book clubs), perhaps more than some of you have thought necessary. Scribner's itself released about 73,000 - only 73,000. MultipleĪdditional printings ensued, and the 1943 Gary Cooper / Ingrid Bergman film only fueled the fire.Īs booksellers, of course, we're most interested in first printings, but here's where the fun starts - and where many booksellers get into trouble. By November 16, FWTBT was number 3 on Publishers' Weekly's bestseller list, and it spent the following 8 weeks at number 1. Scribner's records, in fact, show a total of 210,192 sets of sheets printed by September 17, 1940, over a month prior to its October 21 release.

If you've been in this biz for long, this book has probably passed through your hands more than once:įor Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the most commonly encountered Hemingway titles, and the reason is no mystery: From the get go, tons of them were issued.

Ernest hemingway for whom the bell tolls first edition