HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

The Old Man and the Sea.

London: Jonathan Cape , 1955.

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"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated": First illustrated edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

First illustrated edition of Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, bound in three quarter modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, vignette title, illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. In fine condition.

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.'