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Lot 95
Sale 5834 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 2, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$600 -
900
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$1,260
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Lot Description
[Literature] Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 140, (2) pp. Original light blue cloth, stamped in blind and in silver, soiling on front board; all edges trimmed; bookseller's ticket at bottom of front free endpaper; in original first issue dust-jacket, scattered wear along panel edges, short tear at top of spine panel, two small stains on rear panel, spine slightly darkened. Hanneman A24A
A lovely copy of one of Hemingway's most enduring works. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and contributed to Hemingway's winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year.