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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Scribner's 1929. 8vo, original black cloth, paper labels, pictorial dust jacket (a trifle rubbed and dust-soiled on rear) . FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, without the legal disclaimer, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To C.W. Meyers Jr. with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway." Hanneman A8a; Connolly, The Modern Movement : "Its success was so enormous that it may be said to have ended Hemingway's influence as a writer. After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence..." A fine copy. Provenance : Jack E. and Rachel Gindi (sale, Christie's East, 20 April 1994, lot 16).