Description
First edition, first printing of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Octavo, 140pp. Light blue cloth binding with title in silver on spine. First edition with Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s seal on copyright page. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Staining to cloth spine, dark stain along top of front board, no impact to text block. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, price clipped, no mention of Nobel Prize on rear panel, light soiling to rear panel, dampstain to verso and along back panel, bright illustrations, Housed in custom clamshell case, blue cloth, title in gilt over blue leather label. (Hanneman 24a).
This book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and is considered one of the most important novels of the 20th century.
