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Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man And The Sea – First UK Edition 1952
£375.00
A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1952. A near fine book with one neat name to the front endpaper. In a near fine unclipped first issue dust wrapper. Chips to the head of the spine and some nicking to extremities. Rare.
The last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
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A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1952. A near fine book with one neat name to the front endpaper. In a near fine unclipped first issue dust wrapper. Chips to the head of the spine and some nicking to extremities. Rare.
The last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
