‎HEMINGWAY, Ernest. ‎
‎THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA.‎

‎Edition originale et premier tirage du Vieil Homme et la mer, chef-d’œuvre d’Hemingway qui lui valut le prix Pulitzer et le prix Nobel de littérature. Bel exemplaire, très pur, conservé dans son cartonnage et sa jaquette d’éditeur, tel que paru. Charles Scribners’sons, New York, 1952. In-12 de (1) p., 140 pp. Cartonnage bleu d’éditeur, jaquette conservée. 205 X 140 mm. TRUE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST PRINTING OF ONE OF HEMINGWAY’S MASTERPIECE, WITH THE SCRIBNER’S “A” AND SEAL ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE AND NO MENTION OF NOBEL PRIZE ON THE DUST JACKET. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE DU VIEIL HOMME ET LA MER, CHEF-D’ŒUVRE D’HEMINGWAY QUI LUI VALUT LE PRIX PULITZER ET LE PRIX NOBEL DE LITTERATURE EN 1953. The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 and was cited in the announcement of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize in 1954: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”. AN ATTRACTIVE AND A PURE COPY, KEPT IN ITS ORIGINAL PALE BLUE CLOTH AND IN ITS ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, AS ISSUED.‎

Reference : YTB-86

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