The Old Man and the Sea
by Hemingway
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Easton Press, 1990. The Easton Press 1990. Easton Collector's Edition. Reddish-brown Easton leather binding with gilt and black type and design, all edges gilt, with red-brown silk moire endpapers and matching ribbon marker. Cover has no apparent wear. Interior is unmarked, tight, like new. Gilt edges on top and bottom are like new, fore edge has minor loss of gilt. Octavo. 16.5 x 24 cm. 117 pp. With black-and-white reproductions of illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. Introduction by Charles Scribner, Jr.
Synopsis
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Belleyre Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3097
- Title
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Author
- Hemingway
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Date Published
- 1990
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...