The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway, The Reprint Society, 1953, Illustrated Awarded the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction in 1953 and cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize In Literature to Hemingway in 1954, this is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It tells the story of Santiago, an ageing Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. The book is illustrated throughout by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard and notable and collectable because the illustrations created for this 1953 Reprint Society volume were used in the original publisher's later first illustrated edition of 1955. This illustrated volume is in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. There is minor shelf wear to the top and and bottom edges of the spine. The slightly toned and foxed end papers and pages are free from marks, tears or inscriptions. The top edge retains its original red tint. The dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in very good condition with a tear to to the top edge of the front cover, a crease to the bottom corner of the front cover, shelf wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine, and faint marks to the back cover. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.