8vo. Half-title. Original light blue silver-stamped cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket with "$3.00" price (a few tiny chips, some minor staining verso, otherwise bright). Provenance: Patsy English (publisher's compliments slip laid in signed by English).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page. FIRST ISSUE dust jacket with the rear panel photo tinted blue. The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, who struggles with a giant marlin off the coast of Cuba.  Patsy English worked as Ansel Adams' darkroom assistant in the 1930s. During that time, she became the object of his affection, and Adams almost left his wife to pursue a relationship with English.  A BRIGHT COPY. Hanneman A24a.