The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Scribner’s, 1952. First Edition. With capital ‘A’ and seal on copyright page which denotes the first issue. Pp, 140.  Blue cloth boards, title lettered in silver to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket designed by “A”, with portrait photograph of the author to rear by Lee Samuels. Fraying to head & tail of jacket spine & hinges, price-clipped, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Loosely is a rare press photograph of Hemingway, stamped and dated to rear 29/10/54, the day after he was announces as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for that year. With Ink stamps of a Swedish newspaper archive.

First issue of Hemingway’s last major work of fiction that was published during his lifetime.

“A masterly example of literary art, simple and magnificent.”