A Farewell to Arms (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

347, [1] pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A limited edition published for subscribers of Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Includes illustrations by Barron Storey. 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.