1940 First Edition For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway | Scribner’s H...

This is a 1940 Scribner’s “H” imprint of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, complete with dust jacket. The jacket shows wear, chips, tanning, and a small hole in the spine, but has been placed in a clear archival wrapper for protection. The boards are striking in red with bronze lettering, like the toll of a bell. Inside, the structure is solid with no inscriptions, dog-ears, or margin notes.

Hemingway’s novel follows Robert Jordan, an American dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War, caught between political duty and the fleeting spark of love. Banned in parts of the U.S. for its frank depictions of sex and war, it dares to ask: What does it mean to live fully, knowing death is always near?

As a Florida resident, I collect works by Florida authors like Hemingway—not just for their literary brilliance, but because they root me to the place I call home while reaching across the world with timeless stories.