The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first issue, with capital “A” and publisher's device to copyright page. First issue jacket with text in brown. ii , 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sea blue full cloth boards, Hemingway's signature blind-stamped at front board. Some rubbing along head of spine, light sunning, in unclipped dust jacket with some light shelfwear, and with some tape residue to flaps, but very bright and blue. Hanneman A24a; Grissom A.24.1.a. Item

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