The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 1952

Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952. This copy signed directly on first page by author. True first edition and first printing of Hemingway's classic tale of a lone fisherman and giant marlin locked in battle, with Scribner's A and seal on the copyright page, and no mention of the Nobel Prize on the dust jacket. The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953, and was cited in the announcement of Hemingway's Nobel Prize in 1954: for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style. A bright, near-fine copy. Octavo, original pale blue cloth lettered in silver, Hemingway's signature blindstamped to front board, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. This copy signed directly by the author on the front free endpaper (not in an added clip or postcard). Pictures available upon request. $17500