Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea
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London, Reprint Society, 1953.
First Illustrated Edition, ‘Club Edition’. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/- for World Books Members only.
An attractive example of the first illustrated edition of this Hemingway classic.
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A very good copy, in very good dust-jacket.
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