THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
$1,045 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First English edition, first impression. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth, the upper cover and spine decorated in red and lettered in red within a pale blue label, in the original colourfully illustrated dustjacket. 127 pp. A very pleasing copy of this difficult to find issue,, the cloth is very bright and in fine condition, the dustjacket also very bright and clean with only light evidence of age or shelving. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING of Hemingway's novella, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. This English edition has a much more colorful and appealing dustjacket than the American edition. “Hemingway has written nothing so beautiful as this brief tale, and nowhere, I think, has his vision of the heroic scars of life been so surely realized. It is a little book in space but read it three times and it grows in the mind like an old story of one’s childhood: so certain it is, so satisfying are its pains and valiancy.” -E Linklater
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- Year: 1952
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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