The Old Man & the Sea (First Edition)

19.5 x 12.5cms, 127pp, first British edition, original blue cloth in illustrated jacket, jacket worn with rubbing & creasing to edges, small losses at corners & spine ends, old tape reinforcement/repair at upper & lower spine & corners, price-clipped (publisher's flap shows 9s 6d); internally, heavy foxing to to endpapers & preliminaries, text generally clean. First British edition of Hemingway's Pultizer Prize-winning novella, one of the defining works of 20th-century American literature. Issued in now iconic pictorial jacket with maritime imagery.