8vo. Original blue cloth (spine leaned and sunned, light rubbing to fore-corners); dust jacket (spine lightly toned, some chipping at ends and fore-corners). Provenance: Bregenzer (rubberstamp on front pastedown).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s seal on copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the rear panel photo tinted blue. 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. Hanneman A24a.