8vo. (Some occasional light spotting.) Original light blue cloth, signature stamped in blind at the foot of the upper cover, spine lettered in silver (spine lightly sunned, a touch of wear to extremities); dust jacket (some minor toning and staining, slight chipping to edges and a few very short tears to folds, 1/2-in. closed tear to the rear panel at the head). Provenance: Dixie Hartman (signature); Levinson's, Sacramento (bookseller ticket on rear pastedown).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s seal on copyright page, IN A FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the "$3.00" price on the front flap and with the back photograph of Hemingway tinted blue [no priority]. The Old Man and the Sea was the last of Hemingway’s major works to be published in his lifetime; in 1953 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A BRIGHT COPY. Hanneman A24a.