‘Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated’
The Old Man and the Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
Price:
$5,000.00
First edition, first issue, with capital “A” and publisher's device to copyright page. First issue jacket with text in brown. [ii], 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full sea-blue over boards, Hemingway's signature blind-stamped at front board. Very light shelfwear, bookplate to front endleaf. Near fine in fine unclipped dust jacket. Hanneman A24a; Grissom A.24.1.a.
Item #379762
First edition of Hemingway's most popular novel, his last sustained work of fiction in his lifetime. On the bestseller list for half a year, the book not only silenced those who had lambasted Across the River and into the Trees, but earned its author the Pulitzer Price and the Nobel. Hemingway was sure that The Old Man and the Sea would "get rid of the school of criticism that I am through as a writer." John Dos Passos agreed, later saying that the phenomenal success of The Old Man and the Sea "was like a magician's stunt".
A CHOICE COPY IN SUPERIOR CONDITION.
Item #379762
First edition of Hemingway's most popular novel, his last sustained work of fiction in his lifetime. On the bestseller list for half a year, the book not only silenced those who had lambasted Across the River and into the Trees, but earned its author the Pulitzer Price and the Nobel. Hemingway was sure that The Old Man and the Sea would "get rid of the school of criticism that I am through as a writer." John Dos Passos agreed, later saying that the phenomenal success of The Old Man and the Sea "was like a magician's stunt".
A CHOICE COPY IN SUPERIOR CONDITION.
