The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

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

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