HEMINGWAY, Ernest “The Old Man and the Sea” [Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952]

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. Book of the Month Club Edition. 8.25" x 5.75", 140pp. Publisher’s blue cloth (appears darker under jacket), in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket shows chipping at spine ends and corners with short closed tears and edge wear; light creasing and rubbing to panels; cloth clean and binding firm; pages lightly toned; no inscriptions observed. Very Good in a Good dust jacket.

Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novella of endurance and quiet heroism, first published in 1952 and later cited in the Nobel Prize committee’s recognition of his work. The spare, disciplined prose and elemental struggle between Santiago and the great marlin stand as a defining statement of Hemingway’s late style and one of the most iconic American literary works of the twentieth century.