The Old Man & The Sea
$65
By Ernest Hemingway
Handsome early reprint of this classic novella
In stock
Description
- Sixteenth UK Printing [Jonathan Cape, London, 1958]; 127pp; blue cloth, red illustration to front board, titling on spine, top edge sunned, light foxing to block & last half-dozen leaves, top block marked, a very good copy; in like price-clipped dustjacket, [unusually, the illustration is that used for the US edition of a fishing village, rather than the bright fish-dominant illustration of the UK version], a little rubbed along edges, rear panel showing foxing, front similarly marked although largely obscured by illustration
- A handsome copy of Hemingway’s lauded novella
- Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize For Literature, as noted on front flap