FIRST EDITION. The story is based on the author's experience as an ambulance driver in Finland and France during WWII, comparable to Ernest Hemingway?s Farewell to Arms. According to the publisher, this is the first novel by an American to come out of WWII. The title is borrowed from Cardinal Newman, "The night is dark, and I am far from home." Uncommon.

BOOK: Publisher's dark cream coloured cloth boards with black and red horizontal lines, book with a very slight forward lean, top-stain faded, internally clean. DJ: Unclipped jacket with $2.50 to inner flap, worn and nicked to extremities, especially spine ends, rubbed to hinges, some small closed tears throughout. Jacket design by Edward Shenton.

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Title: Far From Home
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia and New York
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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HJL Books is a London-based specialist in rare 20th-century books, offering a finely curated selected of modern first editions, with a leaning toward the scarce and unusual. Areas of interest: European literature in translation, humanities and social sciences, dust jacket design, art and architecture. I issue bi-weekly newsletters of recent acquisitions along with the more occasional catalogue. I exhibit regularly at fairs the UK and North America. I pride myself in detailed and accurate cataloging, and exceptional care and packaging. And most of all offering good books.

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