Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. The Old Man and the Sea. 8vo, silver-lettered blue cloth, scattered light discoloration; first issue dust jacket with blue printing on rear panel photograph, few modest tape repairs on verso, spine panel ends rubbed with one small nick in the middle affecting two letters; interior with no bookplates or markings. New York: Scribner's, 1952

Additional Details

first edition, first issue in unclipped dust jacket, with 'A' and publisher's seal on verso of title-page, and no mention of the Pulitzer Prize that he was awarded the following year. Hanneman A24a.