The Old Man and The Sea. London: Cape, 1952. First UK Edition. Pp, 127. Pale blue cloth boards, illustration stamped to upper cover, title to spine, in full colour pictorial dust jacket. Wear to head & tail of jacket, light fading to boards, neat ownership name to front free endpaper, section torn-out of jacket rear. A few neat annotations in pencil to several pages, otherwise the contents pages are in nice bright condition.

The first printing in England, preceded by the American edition published by Scribners in the same year.

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

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