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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. True First Edition, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. A true first printing/ first edition with price clipped first edition dust jacket displaying brown tint printing on flaps and blue tint author's photograph on back. No mention of either Pulitzer or Nobel prizes on dust jacket.
Scribner's "A" is present as well as the seal at copy right page. Blue cloth boards with Hemingway's signature blind-stamped at front board with the title in silver along the spine. Linen pages are clean with some toning. Square and tight binding. The original first edition dust jacket has some moderate wear and chipping (please see photographs), price clipped and protected in removable clear sleeve. Some water drop stains or discoloration appears on front and end boards along with pencil marking in corner of front end page.
A true collector's edition.
Scribner's "A" is present as well as the seal at copy right page. Blue cloth boards with Hemingway's signature blind-stamped at front board with the title in silver along the spine. Linen pages are clean with some toning. Square and tight binding. The original first edition dust jacket has some moderate wear and chipping (please see photographs), price clipped and protected in removable clear sleeve. Some water drop stains or discoloration appears on front and end boards along with pencil marking in corner of front end page.
A true collector's edition.
Synopsis
This novella, only 140 pages, was first printed in its entirety in Life Magazine on September 1, 1952. It inspired a buying frenzy - selling over five million copies of the magazine in just two days! The story about an aging Cuban fisherman wrangling a large marlin in the gulf stream was written in 1951 in Cuba and published in 1952. In 1953, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and led to Hemingway's nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Man's struggle against nature is the resounding theme throughout the book as Hemingway portrays Santiago's travails as an experienced fisherman facing a dry-spell of 85 days before finally wrangling a prized marlin. Hemingway also highlights the indomitable spirit of man while illustrating his ideal of manliness and character in the strong and determined fisherman facing danger and discomfort without complaint and with resolution, both in the days it takes Santiago to kill the marlin, and as he fights off the sharks that end up destroying his prized catch before he reaches the coast. Some say that Hemingway's tale is a reflection of his own determination to prove his writing career was not over, and the portrayal of the sharks may echo the critics who had been claiming for the ten years that his writing career, after the successful release of For Whom the Bell Tolls in 1940, was over. The book is dedicated "To Charlie Scribner And To Max Perkins," friends of Hemingway's that had passed away before the book came out. Max Perkins, who also edited F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, died in 1947 and Scribner, who was president of the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, died in 1952.
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Reviews
On Mar 6 2014, a reader said:
The Old Man and The Sea is an excellent novella for someone to read looking to get away from the troubles of life only to find that some troubles lead to the greatest reward of even though the reward is only a small amount.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4767
- Title
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- True First Edition, 1952
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
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Parrish Books
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SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
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