The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Scribners, 1952. First Edition. Pp, 140. Contains capital ‘A’ and seal on copyright page which denotes the first issue. Blue cloth boards, title lettered in silver to spine, in facsimile of publisher’s pictorial dust jacket designed by “A”, with portrait photograph of the author to rear by Lee Samuels. A nice bright copy.

First issue of Hemingway’s last major work of fiction that was published during his lifetime.

“A masterly example of literary art, simple and magnificent.”