Ernest Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea" Signed First Edition

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea” Signed First Edition - 1952

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY (American, 1899-1961) The Old Man and the Sea, 1952, first edition, later printing, hardcover, publisher’s light blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, signed “Ernest Hemingway” in fountain pen to the copyright page published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, approximately 8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.3 x 14 cm). With facsimile dust jacket.

A signed first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, the novella first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in September 1952, which appeared initially in Life magazine that same month and went on to win the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and to be cited in the committee’s awarding of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novella tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, and his three-day battle with a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream, and is widely regarded as the distillation of the themes of endurance, dignity, and solitary struggle that defined Hemingway’s mature fiction. Signed first editions are actively collected, and Hemingway’s copies to friends, family, and literary figures have passed through the major auction rooms regularly since the 1960s.

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