The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Fiction,First Editions,Nautical & Maritime

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition, first printing with Scribner's Seal and "A" on copyright. Octavo; 140p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $3.00 price present; olive tint to photo on back. Light blue cloth board with blind-stamped signature to front and silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket toned and chipped along edges; shallow loss to top of spine. Boards slightly cocked; minor wear to edges; spine lettering rubbed. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Called by many a "poor man s Moby Dick" upon its publication, The Old Man and the Sea garnered praise as the year wore on. Even his rival, William Faulkner, had this to say in his one paragraph review in the Autumn 1952 edition of Shenandoah: "His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries." Grissom A.24.1.a; Hanneman A24a.