THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (First Printing, First State)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition, First Printing, First State.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952
First Edition, First Printing, First State Jacket: A lovely FINE book in a Near Fine unrestored first state dust jacket. With all the relevant first edition points. First printing with "A" and publisher's colophon on the copyright page. First state dust jacket with brown type on flaps and blue-brown author portrait on rear panel. EX. Bauman's Rare Books and will include their original description slip. A fantastic copy of Hemingway's novella, which won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The book has blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. The book has sharp corners, with no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The interior pages are clean, and unusually bright, with no marks, no stains, no handling marks, no foxing, no bent pages and no writing The end papers are clean with no owner names, and no inscriptions. An overall Fine condition, beautiful, clean book.
The original unrestored first edition, First State jacket is with only slight rubbing to the extremities. First state dust jacket with brown type on flaps and blue-brown author portrait on rear panel. The jacket colors remain bright and vibrant. The dust jacket is not Price clipped and has a stated price of $3.00 on the inside front flap. Please see detailed images.
A fantastic well price first printing copy with a superb clean book and a vibrant first printing, first state dust jacket!
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. Fine / Near Fine. Item #3344Price: $6,995.00