8vo. (Some occasional light soiling.) Original light blue silver-stamped cloth (a touch of sunning and light wear to extremities); dust jacket with "$3.00" price (some minor toning and light chipping). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the "A" and Scribner's 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. Hanneman A24a.