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255 - Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, first edition, first issue, publisher's "A" and seal to copyright p., ink ownership signature and light toning to front free endpaper, original blue cloth, faint sunning to spine, spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed, first issue dust-jacket with portrait of Hemingway in blue tint on back panel and no mention of Nobel Prize, short closed tear on spine and upper panel, very slightly affecting text, spine lightly toned, small tape marks to upper panel verso, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman A24a], 8vo, New York, 1952.
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Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, first edition, first issue, publisher's "A" and seal to copyright p., ink ownership signature and light toning to front free endpaper, original blue cloth, faint sunning to spine, spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed, first issue dust-jacket with portrait of Hemingway in blue tint on back panel and no mention of Nobel Prize, short closed tear on spine and upper panel, very slightly affecting text, spine lightly toned, small tape marks to upper panel verso, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman A24a], 8vo, New York, 1952. *** A very good copy of the true first edition of Hemingway's great novella.
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