HEMINGWAY (Ernest).

The Old Man and the Sea.

First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, author’s embossed signature to front cover, first issue dust jacket. New York, Charle’s Scribner’s Sons, 1952.

£1,750.00
HEMINGWAY (Ernest).
The Old Man and the Sea.

The correct first issue dust jacket, with the flaps printed in brown and no reference to Hemingway’s Pulitzer or Nobel Prize on the rear panel.

A very good copy overall, jacket slightly worn at extremities with shallow chipping and creasing along the bottom edge of front panel, rear turn-in fold with a strip of red marking and small area of paper loss towards the foot, light spotting to endpapers, contents otherwise generally clean and unmarked.

Stock No.
264568