Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. The Old Man and the Sea. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, spine leaning slightly with some faint mottling and some of the silver-stamping flecked, later dust jacket with the Pulitzer Prize indication on the front flap (top corner torn), printed wraparound band with the 1954 Nobel Prize award indication; endpapers moderately discolored with Havana bookstore/rental library bookplate to front pastedown. First edition, later printing, signed and inscribed: "For Martin Naughton Esq / with all best wishes / always / Ernest Hemingway / La Vigia / San Francisco de Paula / 1955." Included is an unrestored first issue dust jacket with $3.00 price. Hanneman A24. New York: Charles Scribner's Son, (1952)