HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. -- And 1 other.
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.
8vo. Publisher’s cloth (sunning to spine, rubbing).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s seal on copyright page. 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.
[With:] HEMINGWAY. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth (rubbing, light soiling); original dust jacket (chipping along extremities, light soiling, small losses). Book club edition.
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