HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

£5,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, in a bright example of the first issue dust jacket illustrating the Cuban fishing village Cojímar. Hemingway wrote to the jacket designer Adriana Ivancich, "if I could only have been there to celebrate with you when you had finished [it]. I think we have what triumphs we have at much too great a distance from each other".Hemingway's final work of fiction won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and was cited for his receipt of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The first issue dust jacket omits mention of these awards and has flaps printed in brown.

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