HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

The Old Man and the Sea.

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

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"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated": Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea; Inscribed by him to Actress and Close Friend Ann Southern

Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ann Sothern, Wishing her all good things always. From her friend, Ernest Hemingway, Sun Valley 1958." The recipient, Ann Sothern was an actress best known for her roles in A Letter to Three Wives with Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell and The Whales of August with Bette Davis and Lillian Gish; her last film, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and for her television work on Private Secretary and The Ann Sothern Show; both of which lead to Primetime Emmy Award nominations. After she retired from her acting career she moved to Ketchum, Idaho a town adjacent to Hemingway's home in Sun Valley, where she became friends with him. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with Sothern's bookplate. Photograph of Hemingway by Lee Samuels. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional association.

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.