Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jacket (price-clipped). Provenance: Starr Ford (ownership inscription).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Scribner's "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the rear panel photo tinted blue. The Old Man and the Sea was the last of Hemingway's major works to be published in his lifetime. Written during the winter of 1950-51 while living with his muse, Italian poet Adriana Ivancich, in Cuba, the book was conceived as being part of a planned "sea trilogy," the only other completed part of which would be posthumously published in 1970 as Islands in the Stream. The book was so well-received that for weeks after its publication Hemingway estimated that he received eighty letters a day congratulating him on it. The Old Man and the Sea would go on to win the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hanneman A24a.

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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

The Library of Stephen J. Farber

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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