The Old Man and the Sea

SIGNED/ INSCRIBED with an additional manuscript. Quarter black buckram with white lettering on spine and image of a man in a hat on the front cover. Light shelf wear. Havana, Cuba bookseller sticker at lower corner of the front pastedown. A formerly taped down letter from Ernest Hemingway which reads "To Mrs. Cox -- I'm glad you liked it. English is still a good language. Thank you very much for teaching it. Best always, Erenst Hemingway." on an attached piece of paper is "This space devoted to writers cramp EH)." Extensive browned tape residue is visible on front free endpage, the letter's edges and on the half title which faces the letter. Half inch tear to bottom of front free endpage (archive tape repaired). Although the letter has come loose as the glue has aged, the tape residue on the letter edges matches what is found on the front free endpage & half title. The half title has an additional inscription which reads: "To Mrs. Ray W. Cox with all good wishes always from her friend Erest Hemingway." The jacket has been brodarted with wear to the corners and the top & bottom of the spine but overall in VERY GOOD minus condition. Great gift item for the collector of Hemingway. 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 an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Though it has been the subject of disparate criticism, it is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction and in Hemingway's canon, reaffirming his worldwide literary prominence and significant in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.