8vo. Half-title. Original light blue silver-stamped cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket with "$3.00" price (corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, a few tiny closed tears). 

INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on title-page: "Ernest Hemingway Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba 1958."

FIRST EDITION, later issue without the "A" on the copyright page, but with the Scribner's seal. In a later issue dust jacket with the rear panel photo tinted olive. Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea in Cayo Blanco Cuba in 1951, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the work.  Hanneman A24a.