The Old Man and the Sea
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
First edition, first printing with "A" and publisher's colophon on the copyright page. [i], 140 pp. Bound in publisher's sky blue cloth with spine lettered in silver and Hemingway's signature blindstamped to front board. Near Fine with light wear and toning to extremities. Bookplate, small glue smear, and evidence of label removal to front endsheet. In a Near Fine unclipped first state dust jacket with brown type on flaps and blue-brown author portrait on rear panel. Light toning, trivial edgewear, very soft vertical creases to front and rear panels, and soft diagonal crease to rear flap. Hanneman 24A.
An exceptionally lovely copy of Hemingway's novella, which won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner famously opened his single-paragraph review with: "His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries."
Price: $7,500