Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
The Old Man and the Sea, First Edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

First edition, first issue, octavo, with "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page, and no mention of the Pulitzer Prize; light blue publisher's cloth stamped in blind with Hemingway's signature on front board, silver stamped spine; with unclipped later state dust jacket, with text over Hemingway's portrait printed in olive (spine spotted and fading, area of spotting to back board); 8 x 5 3/8 in.

Hanneman 24A.