8vo. Original light blue silver-stamped cloth (spine slightly slanted, a touch of wear to extremities, a few light stains, a tiny hole in rear hinge); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few short closed tears, minor creasing to flaps, slight toning to flap edges). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with Scribner’s "A" and seal on copyright page. In a FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the rear panel photo tinted blue. The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, who struggles with a giant marlin off the coast of Cuba. Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea in Cayo Blanco Cuba in 1951, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the work. A BRIGHT COPY. Hanneman A24a.