The Old Man and the Sea.

FIRST EDITION, pp. [i], 140, crown 8vo, original blue cloth with author's signature blind-stamped to upper board, few very faint spots to lower board, backstrip lettered in silver and lightly spotted, edges toned with a smattering of spots to top edge, first issue dustjacket with a design by Adriana Ivancich (signed 'A'), price-clipped, slightly chipped and rubbed to extremities with sunning to backstrip panel and borders of rear panel, the Lee Samuels photographic portrait of author to the rear panel with a couple of light pencil numerals above his head and a faint pink mark at his collar, very good