The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway, Ernest

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1961

About this Item

Fine condition blue cloth boards with silver spine lettering in a good condition color illustrated non price-clipped dust jacket showing the original $3.00 printed price. This is a June 1961, 20th printing, as evidenced by: T-6.61[H] on the copyright page and the rear jacket containing a photograph of Hemingway and announcing his winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. The upper front of the jacket shows two under one inch closed tears, upper and lower jacket spine edge wear and a 1/2 inch rear lower jacket edge closed tear, otherwise the front cover colors are bright. The blank first front endpaper contains a previous owner name and address neatly affixed to the upper page. All other pages are in very fine condition and the volume is exceedingly tight and perfectly square. 20th Printing. "Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is an idyll of the sea as sea, as un-Byronic and un-Melvillian as Homer himself, and communicated in a prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. No real artist symbolizes or allegorizes - and Hemingway is a real artist - but every real work of art exhales symbols and allegories. So does this short but not small masterpiece." - Bernard Berenson. "For his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most recently evinced in The Old Man and the Sea." - The Swedish Academy. Seller Inventory # 004247

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Old Man and the Sea

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Good