HEMINGWAY, ERNEST — The Old Man and the Sea

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. BCE. Hardcover. ISBN: 0870440713. Book club edition. Ernest Hemingway's classic novelette is the ultimate saga of the sea, and one man's refusal to yield to its power. "The Old Man and the Sea" was Hemingway's final novel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited when the author was presented with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. --- In full dark blue cloth-covered boards with author facsimile signature in blind to front cover, spine titling in silver and a 'W' on copyright page. (Originally published 1952, this copy bears no later date.) Back of brightly-colored Adriana Ivancich-designed dust jacket bears author portrait by Lee Samuels. --- A tightly-bound, well-preserved copy, though with prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, else unmarked interior. Fair-only dust jacket with large open tear to back panel and head of spine, other small tears and creases; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [10], 9-140 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .