HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

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The Old Man and the Sea. Early issue, in a rare deluxe morocco binding by Whitman Bennett, lettered on the spine "Bound edition of 20 copies". The bibliographer Grissom dated this issue between 1953-55; an original receipt loosely inserted in this copy is dated 8 October 1954. Grissom further noted seeing a copy with a limitation statement handwritten on the binder's first blank.Formerly a film producer, Bennett (c.1884-1968) established Bennett Book Studios and Bindery in New York after becoming a book dealer in 1925. Hemingway's final work of fiction was published in 1952, winning the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and being cited for his receipt of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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