HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea, London, 1952, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With another by the same author. (2)

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. 8vo (193 x 125mm). Half title (small spot to title). Original blue cloth with illustration stamped in red on the upper cover, the dust-jacket designed by Hans Tisdall with the price of 7s. 6d. net unclipped (dust-jacket with some chipping and fraying to upper edge with slight loss to 'E' of Ernest at the head of the backstrip). Provenance: J. S. Copland, September 1952 (signature to front free endpaper). FIRST U.K. EDITION of the last novel published in the author's lifetime. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 and contributed to Hemingway winning the Nobel Prize for literature the following year. Hanneman A45a. With the same author's For Whom the Bell Tolls (New York, Charles Scribner's, 1940, original grey cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, later issue, without the 'A' on the copyright page). (2)