A Farewell to Arms (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

314 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, including a rose motif on spine & boards, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A limited edition published for subscribers of Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Includes illustrations by Herbert Tauss. The story of a troubled romance, set against the Italian campaign of World War I. Hemingway's third novel, and his first bestseller, which confirmed his status as one of the great's of American literature. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.