The Old Man and the Sea.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Item Number: 136461

New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.

First edition, early printing of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Ernest Hemingway Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba 1958.” Finca Vigía is a house in San Francisco de Paula Ward in Havana, Cuba which was once the residence of Hemingway. Near fine in a near fine bright dust jacket. Photograph of Hemingway by Lee Samuels.

Upon its publication in 1952 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. The novel reinvigorated Hemingway's literary reputation. It initiated a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novel was received with such alacrity, that it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. Indeed, the publisher even wrote on an early dust jacket, calling the novel a "new classic," and it was compared by many critics to such revered works as William Faulkner's "The Bear" and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.