The Old Man and The Sea

New York: Scribner’s, (1952). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 127 pp. Original sky blue cloth-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($3.00) dust-jacket. Almost fine. Edge wear with very light rubbing and fraying to spine ends and corners, a few trivial scuffs. Trace toning to flap edges. Great condition of a vulnerable jacket. Small vertical tear above the ‘H’ on the front panel. Protected in archival mylar. Light wear to edges. Top corners touched, bottom lightly rubbed. Top text block with small nicks. Pencil price erasure to ffep. Light curling to spine ends, pages lightly toned. Vague ‘spot’ to front panel cloth - hardly visible. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco (Cuba), and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.”