Description
First edition, second printing of Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Octavo, 140pp. Light blue cloth binding with silver gilt title on spine. Lacking Scribner’s “A” on copyright page, but retains the publisher’s devise. Previous ownership signature on front endpaper. Publisher’s dust jacket in near fine condition, $3.00 on front flap, bright colors with only slight rubbing to extremities, no mention of Nobel Prize and olive complexion photograph. (Hanneman 24a). A beautiful copy.
Comments: This book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and is considered one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.
