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Identify the typeface in the epigraph of first edition "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

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Greetings type folks,

Please help me identify this typeface:

https:www.calligraphydallas.com/hemingway01.jpg

It is the epigraph page of a first edition "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Thank you!

James

hemingway01.jpg

Solved by Jamesiv1

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Looks like it's a vintage version of Garamond... This is pretty close:

garamond04.png

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