Description
First edition, first printing of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, a fine example.
Octavo, 140pp. Light blue cloth binding with title in silver on spine. First edition with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.00 on front flap, extremely faint sunning to top quarter, no mention of Nobel Prize on rear panel. Housed in custom clamshell case, blue cloth, title in gilt over blue leather label. (Hanneman 24a). An exceptional copy.
This book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and is considered one of the most important novels of the 20th century.
