[First Edition] The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway...

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition, first printing. . Octavo. 140 pp. Original pale blue cloth, Hemingway's facsimile signature stamped in blind on the upper board, spine lettered in silver. In the original pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped: no [$3.00 on front flap, photograph of Hemingway by Lee Samuels on rear panel]. . First edition, first-printing points present: the letter "A" together with the Scribner's seal/colophon printed on the copyright page; no reference to the Pulitzer Prize (awarded 1953) or the Nobel Prize (awarded 1954) anywhere in the preliminaries; no ISBN. Not the Book-of-the-Month Club issue (which shares the "A" but lacks the Scribner's seal, carries printer's data at the foot of the copyright page, and has no price on the jacket's front flap). . Condition: VG/VG. Book: boards bright with only light rubbing to the extremities; binding tight and square; light, even toning to the text block edges as expected with age, neat prior owner signature on ffep. Dust jacket: price-intact, mild edgewear and shelfwear with a small chip gutter base. Spine panel lightly toned and two small scuffs, but titles and lettering bright, not price-clipped, not restored or repaired. . Hanneman A24.a; Grissom A.24.1.a. Hemingway's last major work published in his lifetime; winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and cited in the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954). .

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