Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. The Old Man and the Sea. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. 8vo, black cloth backstrip over blue cloth stamped in gold, minor wear to spine ends; dust jacket with mostly closed tears at top and bottom edges, tear at top edge of rear panel with some loss. New York, (1952) [i.e., 1960]

Additional Details

first illustrated edition, signed and inscribed by hemingway to his boxing coach george brown on front blank: "To George with gratitude and affection from his old partner Ernie (Keep `em up) Hemingway."