HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET.
Sale 1242 - Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection
Nov 9, 2023
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.
8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jacket (light rubbing at edges); slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s seal on copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with no mention of the Nobel Prize. The Old Man and the Sea was the last of Hemingway’s major works to be published in his lifetime; in 1953 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hanneman A24a.
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