The Old Man And The Sea. Hemingway, Ernest.

First edition, first printing, in the first issue jacket, with the flaps printed in brown and no mention of Hemingway's Pulitzer or Nobel Prize on the rear panel. Hemingway's final work of fiction, The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee in their awarding of Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Previously, much has been made of the colour tint on the rear panel portrait by Lee Samuels. Grissom, however, refutes Hanneman's earlier assertion that the blue tinted photograph on the rear panel predates the olive tint, noting, "the identification of a first-printing jacket does not require identifying ambiguous rear-jacket colours: it is the brown printing on the flaps and rear panel that identify the first-printing Scribner's jacket". Grissom A24.1.a; Hanneman 24a. Octavo. Original light blue calico-grain cloth, spine lettered in silver, author's signature to front cover in blind. With dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed, a couple of small marks to front cover, extremities lightly rubbed, contents clean; jacket price-clipped, spine slightly toned, extremities lightly creased, short closed tear to foot of rear panel neatly repaired: a very good copy in very good jacket.