THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with a facsimile of Hemingway's signature stamped in blind to the upper board and silver titles to the spine, in the Adriana Ivancich illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the corners, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate to the upper right corner of the front pastedown (partially hidden by the dustwrapper flap), are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the exceptionally clean and bright, first printing dustwrapper that is lightly rubbed and creased to the extremities, with a very short closed tear at the top of the upper spine fold (secured with a small piece of tape to the underside). Not price-clipped ($3.00 to the upper front flap). A very attractive example.

The author's last major work of fiction published in his lifetime. The novella was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.