279: Hemingway (ernest) For Whom The Bell Tolls : Lot 279

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279: Hemingway (ernest) For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls,

first edition, signed presentation from the author, 'For Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, wishing him all good things all his life, from his friend Ernest Hemingway, Rangoon, April 21 - 1941' to endpaper, earlier ink inscription to endpaper, original cloth, rubbed and a little toned, 8vo, New York, 1940.

***Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (1882-1951), British Ambassador to China, the Soviet Union and the United States. In his biography Radical Diplomat: Life of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Donald Gillies writes how, whilst in Rangoon, Kerr used to regularly swim the Yangtzee River and 'having met Ernest Hemingway at a party dismissed him derisively: "Tough! Why I'm tougher than he is!"'..