Nd.1b.09
A farewell to arms / by Ernest Hemingway.
London : Jonathan Cape, 1929.
349 p. ; 20 cm.
Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Blue leather half-binding over marbled paper covered boards; gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge; bound by Best & Co.
Previous shelfmark: 75.06.
Ms. note by author pasted to front endpaper: "To E. Millington-Drake Esq. This book. - [...] future Etonians may find in it something of interest and a small amount of information in a very biased account of the mixed pleasures of war in the Northern part of the Italian Peninsula[?]. Ernest Hemingway. Key West, Florida. March 23rd 1931.
World War, 1914-1918.
Best & Co. binder.
Jonathan Cape publisher.
England London.
B33141