84 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “Man Is Not Made For Defeat” 111HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York, 1952. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $7500 First edition of Hemingway’s classic story of Santiago and his epic battle with the marlin and the sharks, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his award of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner, who reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the magazine Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my contemporaries” (Baker, 593-94). “Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else” (New York Times). Hanneman A24a. In fine condition. A beautiful copy. “He Felt He Had Left Everything Behind” 112HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Nick Adams Stories. New York, 1972. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $550 First edition of 24 stories by Hemingway, including eight published for the first time. Arranged in a sequence following the life of Nick Adams, Hemingway’s recurring character, this posthumous collection of two dozen tales includes the “Big Two-Hearted River,” “The Last Good Country” and “The Killers.” Published from materials provided by Mary Hemingway, eight stories appear for the first time. Cloth edges slightly toned; dust jacket with one tiny nick to front upper edge. A handsome about-fine copy.
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