1955, Ernest Hemingway – 1st Greek Edition – The Old Man And The Sea, Orig. DJ

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

First Greek Edition

Measures 5.25″ x 7.75″, 102 pages.The original dust jacket is in very good condition and made by the Greek Artist Georgios Varlamos

The book is in very good condition.“The Old Man and the Sea” was the final novel written and published during Hemingway’s lifetime. Written in 1951, it was first published in Life magazine in the fall of 1952. The first edition was published in 1952, with a print run of 50,000 copies. “The Old Man and the Sea” is the story of an aging fisherman who sets off to end his unlucky fishing streak. What ensues is an epic battle between the fisherman and a gigantic Marlin. It is a story of strength and struggle, respect and fear, contemplation and acceptance. This novella won Ernest Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. It is a literary masterpiece written by one of America’s greatest writers.