The Old Man and the Sea SIGNED
London: The Reprint Society, 1953. First Illustrated Edition, Signed. First illustrated edition. Signed by the author Ernest Hemingway on the half title page. Measuring approximately 8.5" x 6", with 117 numbered pages.
This book is in very good plus condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Front board is slightly bowed upwards. Interior pages are clean and well preserved. The original dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Chipping and tearing to the spine ends and corners.
"The Old Man and the Sea" was the final novel written and published during Hemingway's lifetime. Written in 1951, it was first published in Life magazine in the fall of 1952. The first edition was published in 1952, with a print run of 50,000 copies. "The Old Man and the Sea" is the story of an aging fisherman who sets off to end his unlucky fishing streak. What ensues is an epic battle between the fisherman and a gigantic Marlin. It is a story of strength and struggle, respect and fear, contemplation and acceptance. This novella won Ernest Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. It is a literary masterpiece written by one of America's greatest writers.
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Inventory #(P10-51). Item #7466
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