The Old Man and the Sea
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954.
ca. 1954. Early printing. Signed on the front free endpaper by Ernest Hemingway and inscribed "To James and Katrina Hammon / wishing them all good / things always / Ernest Hemingway," underneath which Ernest's wife Mary Hemingway has inscribed "and Mary / July 3rd, 1956 / Finca Vigia / San Francisco de Paula, Cuba". Bound in publisher's original light blue cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with light fraying to corners and spine ends, upper corner bumped, light creasing to rear cover, upper corner of the two front free endpapers are clipped. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning, soiling and wear, with several short closed tears and small nicks. Perhaps the author's most widely-read work, signed by him and his wife.
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