Old Man Sea by Hemingway, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine copy in clamshell box. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st edition. Oblong folio, 82 pp., Limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by the photographer, Alfred Eisenstadt, Bound in 1/4 dark blue goatskin & linen-covered boards with a black, suede-lined clamshell box with inlaid leather spine label. The five photogravure plates were printed on Arches paper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 82 pages. 28 x38 cm. Limited edition, copy 443 of 600 signed by Eisenstadt printed in Munich on Arches Paper printed by Cartieri Enrico Magnani, and designed by Benjamin Shiff. The five photogravures with tissue guards. Extremely wide margins, text very fresh and bright. Quarter navy goatskin morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine suede lined matching clamshell box, brown leather spine label, back of box slightly sunned. Signed by Author(s).

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. First Yiddish Edition. Octavo, yellow cloth boards with a drawing of Hemingway on the front panel, in glassine wraps, 135 pp., b/w drawing by Leonard Baskin Text is in Yiddish. Signed by Baskin on the free front endpaper in Hebrew/Yiddish letters (Yehuda Lib Baskin).

Second English edition, first printing, second issue; First illustrated edition. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. 8vo. A wonderful association copy of The Old Man and the Sea, inscribed by Hemingway on the half title to film director and producer Fred Zinnemann: "Dear Freddy: Better luck if there is a place where we get better luck, Papa" Laid in are two photographs of Ernest and Mary Hemingway at a table with Fred Zinnemann, who had made an unofficial trip to Cuba in October 1955 to discuss the project with Hemingway before being brought on as director. Additionally laid in is a typed sheet with the heading: "December 20th, 1955 / "Old Man of the Sea" / Lima - Peru" containing notes on prices, accommodations, restaurants, etc. associated with filming on location in Peru." There is also a pictorial postcard from a group fishing expedition in Peru for capturing footage for the Old Man and the Sea film, that includes Hemingway and Mary, as well as cinematographer Hans Koenekamp. They spent April in Cabo Blanco, Peru, fishing every day and getting footage of Marlins for the film. The card's typed message is addressed to film producer Norman Cook and Fred Zinneman at the Hotel Rosita De Hornedo in Havana, Cuba, from Joe Barry, who's name appears in minor film roles throughout the period, as well as in the Leland Hayward archive at the NYPL, and was likely working as a production assistant on this shoot. Sent on May 1, 1956, he writes about the photo on the verso: "This is the one we got but he did not give us any action, 730 lbs. 13 Ft 5 In. long. Too bad, he might have been the one, it is one foot longer then [sic.] the biggest one caught here but not as heavy. We are still trying and hope we get what we came here for. My best wishes to you both and hope to see you soon." Leland Hayward, who had persuaded Life magazine to serialize the novel, acquired the rights to The Old Man and the Sea in 1953, Hemingway was brought in to work on the script eventually handled by Peter Viertel and supervise the fishing scenes. Fred Zinneman's first film The Wave (1936) shot on location in Mexico with non-professional actors was one of the earliest examples of a social realist film. He had recent success with the films High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and Oklahoma! Zinneman was unhappy with the difficulty in capturing marlin and shark activity suitable for use in the film, and after a mechanical marlin sank in the waters off of Cuba, Zinneman walked away, saying afterwards: "It made little sense to proceed with a robot pretending to be a fish in a studio tank pretending to be the Gulf Stream with an actor pretending to be a fisherman." His son, Tim, gives a more colorful version of his parting from the film: "My father had been directing the movie of 'Old Man and the Sea' but had a series of fights with Spencer Tracy and quit in the middle of shooting. Hemingway took my father's side and gave him the book with the 'better luck next time'" message. They remained good friends until Hemingway's death.Hemingway,Tracy and Leland Hayward were the producers of the film. Tracy would get drunk and habitually show up five or more hours late on the set (at sea). My father was furious and quit. Hemingway backed up my father and went to see Hayward at his hotel in Havana got into an argument with him and punched him out." A letter sent to Zinneman by Hemingway in August 1956, after the project has already wrapped, reads "Will not write any atrociy stories about the picture. You must be as sick of them as I am," and congratulates Zinneman on passing up an offer to work on a film version of The Sun Also Rises (Christies, 2005). Finally, laid into the book is a Christmas card to Zinnemann's family written by Mary Hemingway, and sent during the Hemingways' Eurropean trip at the end of 1956: "Dear Z's we really ought to be together in this fine town best to have all three of you - Mary (Hemingway) (Paris)" Beneath Mary's inscription, Hemingway writes: "Love Papa. Hope things go well." A lovely association between Hemingway and someone he saw as a close friend until the end of his life. Grissom A.24.1; Baker, Carlos, Ernest Hemingway: A Life, pp. 533 Half-cloth and illustrated paper boards. Some warping and foxing to boards and endpapers, endemic to books from the Caribbean, in dust jacket with some fading to spine, bit of edgewear and some closed tears along top edge, with "With the Compliments of the Author" panel pasted to rear flap Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. 8vo Second English edition, first printing, second issue; First illustrated edition.

EISENSTAEDT, Alfred; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB (illustrator). EISENSTAEDT, Alfred. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Old Man and the Sea [LEC]. Photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Introduction by Charles Scribner. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. Full Description: HEMINGWAY, Ernest. EISENSTAEDT, Alfred. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Old Man and the Sea [LEC]. Photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Introduction by Charles Scribner. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, [1990]. Limited to 600 copies, signed by the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on the limitation page. This being number 6. Oblong folio (15 x 11 inches; 380 x 280 mm). Illustrated with five photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt printed from the original negatives created by Eisenstaedt in 1952 for the Life Magazine appearance of the novel. Publisher's quarter blue goatskin over oatmeal cloth boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Housed in the publisher's felt-lined black cloth clamshell case with black gilt morocco lettering label. Front board of book with one small spot on upper corner. Otherwise a fine copy. "For a time, it was [Hemingway's] plan to publish the tale as part of a collection, but he accepted an unusual offer to have it appear in a single installment of Life magazine. Its appearance in book form followed shortly. The Old Man and the Sea was an immediate success throughout the world. It was specifically cited when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Hemingway in 1954. In fact, its success was so great that it led to a broad revival of interest in all of Hemingway's works which has continued to the present day. It is a curious fact of literary history that a story which describes the loss of a gigantic prize provided the author with the greatest prize of his career." (from the Introduction) Hanneman. LEC Bibliography. HBS 69346. $1,250.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Excelente. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. Excellent nice FIRST edition signed autograph by Ernest Hemingway of the famous book The old man and the sea. Complete 140 pages, in excellent condition inside and original paper cover on normal condition for the use. Dust Jacket and COA. Printed in NY 1952 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. Firmado por el autor.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Oblong folio boxed. Limited to 600 copies with five photogravures from the 1952 Life Magazine assignment to illustrate the original magazine appearance. Quarter leather binding with clamshell box and signed by the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Light scuff marks from shelf wear on clamshell box. Corners of box are lightly bumped. Book itself is in excellent condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

1/4 leather. Condition: Fine copy in clamshell box. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st. Oblong folio, 82 pp., Limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by the photographer, Alfred Eisenstadt, Bound in 1/4 dark blue goatskin & linen-covered boards with a black, suede-lined clamshell box with inlaid leather spine label. The five photogravure plates were printed on Arches paper.

Hardcover. Alfred Eisenstaedt (illustrator). First Limited Edition. Oblong folio (14-1/2" x 11") bound in blue goatskin leather and linen boards. Illustrated with five photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt printed from the original negatives created by Eisenstaedt in 1952 for the Life Magazine appearance of the novel. Copy #447 of 600 numbered copies SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Monthly letter laid in. Fine in a Near Fine suede-lined linen clamshell box with leather label with some sunning and light soiling.

?You need an awful lot of luck when working with the sea and with fish.??A fascinating, unpublished letter obtained by us directly from the recipient?s familyOn HemingwayAfter covering the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vig?a (?Lookout Farm?), an unpretentious estate outside Havana, Cuba. In 1940 he published ?For Whom the Bell Tolls?, which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in ?A Farewell to Arms? he focused on its pointlessness, and in ?For Whom the Bell Tolls? on the comradeship it creates. During World War II, he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe, Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely, and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari, the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash, only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well, newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public. Soon after, he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for ?The Old Man and the Sea?, a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who, after an extended struggle, hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine, and the 50,000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days.In 1955, back in Cuba, Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors? advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife?s? efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of ?The Old Man and the Sea? starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press, of lunches and drinking, finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months, suffering from hepatitis and nephritis.On his friend Mary LouA young American naval officer named Morris was on a training mission with the military and a liberty stop was scheduled for Havana, Cuba, in late January 1955. Mary Lou Firle, his girl friend at the time, and later his wife, was then a second year student at CCNY, and she arranged a trip Cuba so they could meet in Havana. She went a week earlier and stayed at Veradero Beach outside Havana with some other students. Their place at the beach cost $1.00 per day. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had, ?Farewell to Arms.? Mary Lou and boyfriend Morris met in Havana. They went to the famous El Floridita for daiquiris and had dinner. She wore pants (slacks) which were unusual for ladies at the time. The next day they went to Veradero Beach. His ship departed on Sunday.A day or so Later Mary Lou telephoned Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added, ?I have a friend at Fordham University.? Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up.At the meeting a member of the group, possibly the ambassador, said she looked familiar and that he had seen her at the Floridita with a naval officer. She stood out because she wore pants. After the meeting the.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early Printing. ca. 1954. Early printing. Signed on the front free endpaper by Ernest Hemingway and inscribed "To James and Katrina Hammon / wishing them all good / things always / Ernest Hemingway," underneath which Ernest's wife Mary Hemingway has inscribed "and Mary / July 3rd, 1956 / Finca Vigia / San Francisco de Paula, Cuba". Bound in publisher's original light blue cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with light fraying to corners and spine ends, upper corner bumped, light creasing to rear cover, upper corner of the two front free endpapers are clipped. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning, soiling and wear, with several short closed tears and small nicks. Perhaps the author's most widely-read work, signed by him and his wife.

8vo. Spätere Ausgabe des bedeutenden Werkes mit eigenh. Widmung For Karl Karlsson | remembering a happy meeting on ,Vretaholm' Best always Ernest Hemingway Havana 1955." Der Umschlag mit deutlichen Gebrauchsspuren und Einrissen. Als Hemingway 1954 der Literaturnobelpreis verliehen wurde, konnte er aufgrund von Verletzungen nach einem Flugzeugabsturz nicht nach Stockholm kommen, um den Preis entgegenzunehmen. Im Januar 1955 wurde Hemingway daher auf Initiative des Reeders Tor Erland Broström zu einem verspäteten Nobelpreis-Mittagessen auf dem Schiff M/S Vretaholm eingeladen, das in Havanna ankerte. Etwa 20 Gäste waren bei dem dreistündigen Mittagessen anwesend. Für das Essen sorgte Chefsteward Karl Kalle" Karlsson aus Halmstad, der am nächsten Tag von Hemingways Sekretärin Hemingways eigenes Exemplar von Der alte Mann und das Meer" mit einer schönen Widmung als Geschenk überreicht bekam.