Signed book: The Old Man and the Sea. Later UK printing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5 x 7.75, 127 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "with all good wishes, always, Ernest Hemingway, Paris, 16/1/1957." Autographic condition: fine, with the inscription clumsily partly removed. Book condition: VG/VG-, with toning, edgewear, and some small tears to the price-clipped dust jacket. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from JSA.
Written during a two-month span in 1951, The Old Man and the Sea was originally published in September 1952. In conjunction with its wildly popular publication in Life Magazine, the novella earned immediate critical and commercial success, reaffirming Hemingway’s place as a novelist, and subsequently rewarding him with both the Pulitzer and Nobel Peace Prize. A definitive piece of the American literary canon, signed by its enduring author.
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