Description
First English edition, first impression of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Octavo, 127pp, [2]. Blue cloth binding with title in red on spine. “First Published 1952” statement on copyright page. Light foxing to endpapers. Sunning along the spine, wear to rear cloth cover. Internally clean, a very good example. In the publisher’s first issue dust jacket, Variant “C”, with “Recommended by The Book Society” on the front flap, blurbs and reviews on the verso. This copy is price-clipped, with light sunning along the spine, a very good example.
(Grissom A24.2.c)
This book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and is considered one of the most important novels of the 20th century.
