Rare Signed Edition of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to be Auctioned on Behalf of Greater St. Louis Book Fair

February 26, 2010

Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers will auction a signed, limited edition of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms at its Spring Gallery, March 20th - 21st, with all proceeds benefiting The Greater St. Louis Book Fair.

Published in 1929 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, this extremely rare book is a fine copy of Hemingway's only signed and limited edition.

• first edition, 21/510, signed by Hemingway
• blue-green boards with ivory vellum spine with black morocco spine title label, pages with untrimmed edges
• complete with slip case with stylized leaf motif and orange label "limited edition No. 21".