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 ACTRESS ANN SOUTHERN

First edition, early printing of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ann Sothern wishing her all good things always from her friend Ernest Hemingway Sun Valley 1958." The recipient, Ann Sothern, was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Her best-known roles include A Letter to Three Wives with Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell and The Whales of August with Bette Davis and Lillian Gish for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also earned four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her starring roles in her own sitcoms Private Secretary, which aired for five seasons on CBS from 1953 to 1957, and The Ann Southern Show which aired for three seasons between 1958 and 1961. After retiring from acting, Sothern moved to Ketchum, Idaho, a small town only minutes from Hemingway's home in Sun Valley, where she lived until she died in 2001. With the Sothern's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional association copy linking two 1950s American celebrities at the height of their artistic careers.

Upon 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.