THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway, a true first edition / first printing in the dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Scribner's "A" and publisher's colophon on copyright page, as required.

This is correct designation for FIRST EDITION and FIRST PRINTING of this book.

NOT a book club edition. NOT a later printing.

Publisher's original pale blue cloth lettered in silver, text on high quality threaded paper, in original dust jacket with blue-tinted photo of Hemingway on rear panel, and "Jacket design by A" at lower corner of front flap.

Good in Very Good dust jacket.  Two tape marks on front and rear boards. Tape ghosts also on first and last free endpages. No names nor owner markings but four small glue blobs also on first free endpage from a clipping once glued there.  Correct first state pictorial dust jacket is price-clipped, but with all other identifying features of a first state dust jacket complete with blue-tinted photo of Hemingway on rear panel, lightly worn at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket in mylar protector.

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. Hemingway's Nobel Prize winning novel and one of the most perfect works penned in the 20th century. Now a classic.

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