First edition, first printing. Hemingway's final work of fiction and among his best-known works, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel committee in their award of Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Description
Octavo. Finely bound in blue morocco spine lettered in gilt, title, author and five raised bands ruled in gilt to spine, pictorial onlay of Marlin on front cover and green marbled endpapers.
