THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Hemingway - Special Student's Edition, HC/DJ - 1960

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA — Ernest Hemingway — Special Student's Edition, HC/DJ, 1952

 Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, London (1960) 

Special Student's Edition (College Edition) of THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (1960), in very well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight. Dust jacket remains uncut and is in excellent condition, save a bit of darkening. The pages are crisp and clean. Sky blue cloth spine with gilt titles over light aqua blue paper boards with gilt design and signature; rear panel has the Scribner logo in gilt over College Edition. Inside flap of DJ states Special Students Edition and Pulitzer Prize Winner 1953 underneath the title. Short, powerful masterpiece by Hemingway. This is the first year that the students/college edition was printed; this is an excellent copy of an uncommon edition. Scarce, especially with dust jacket, which remains crisp.