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. Small label to front of jacket (price-clipped) with tape repai to inside upper spine, otherwise a nice bright copy.

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.”