The Old Man and the Sea (First Edition)

Hemingway, Ernest (Nobel-Prize winner)

Verlag: Scribner's, New York, 1952

Beschreibung

Handsomely and crisply bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped brightly in silver on the spine. The spine silver lettering is bright and crisp. A very good plus copy. With a presentation to Vic from Norm on Christmas, 1952."on the front endpaper.There is some brown offsetting perhaps from an article that was laid in or perhaps from some glue residue working its way up through the edges of the front paste-down. The rear endpapers are clean and fine. In a good plus striking pictorial dust jacket depicting in rich blue and brown gradations of color Santiago's fishing village on the front panel. Light staining to the top of the left corner of the front boards. Large pieces pissing from the top for the spine ends. The front panel and spine are printed predominantly in blue and brown, while the photo of Hemingway by Lee Samuels on the rear panel has a distinctly light bluish tinge. With the original price of $3.00 at the top of the front inside flap and "Jacket design by A." at the bottom of the front flap. With brown printing on the jacket flaps and the rear panel. A pleasant copy of this Hemingway classic. Note: Regarding the "First edition, first printing: the first issue jacket has the flaps printed in brown and no mention of Hemingway's Pulitzer or Nobel Prize on the rear panel. 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". (Harrington) The New York Times wrote in 1926 of Hemingway's first novel, "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame." The Sun Also Rises is written in the spare, tight prose that made Hemingway famous, and, according to James Nagel, "changed the nature of American writing." In 1954, when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." Paul Smith writes that Hemingway's first stories, collected as In Our Time, showed he was still experimenting with his writing style. He avoided complicated syntax. About 70 percent of the sentences are simple sentencesa childlike syntax without subordination.Henry Louis Gates believes Hemingway's style was fundamentally shaped "in reaction to [his] experience of world war". After World WarI, he and other modernists "lost faith in the central institutions of Western civilization" by reacting against the elaborate style of 19th century writers and by creating a style "in which meaning is established through dialogue, through action, and silencesa fiction in which nothing crucialor at least very littleis stated explicitly." (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1952 and the Scribner's "A" and Seal on the copyright page. 1st Edition: With the required "A" and the Scribner's Seal on the copyright page.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1546

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Old Man and the Sea (First Edition)
• Verlag: Scribner's, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1952
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Fiction