HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Old Man and the Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1952.
$4,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-152060
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"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea; In Exceptional Condition
First edition, first issue of Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth, first issue with "A" and publisher's seal printed on the copyright page and no mention of the Pulitzer Prize Hemingway was awarded the following year. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Adriana Ivancich. Photograph of Hemingway by Lee Samuels. An exceptional example.
Upon its publication in 1952 by Charles Scribner's Sons, 'The Old Man and the Sea' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. The novel reinvigorated Hemingway's literary reputation. It initiated a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novel was received with such alacrity, that it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. Indeed, the publisher even wrote on an early dust jacket, calling the novel a "new classic," and it was compared by many critics to such revered works as William Faulkner's 'The Bear' and Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick.'
The Old Man and the Sea.
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