8vo. Original light blue silver-stamped cloth (some staining to text block fore-edge, spine lightly sunned); original dust jacket (spine lightly sunned, small closed tear to front joint, a touch of wear at ends). Provenance: Unidentified bookplate.

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.