Franklin Library: Ernest Hemingway: Old Man & the Sea

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Franklin Library: Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," Illustrated by Daniel Schwartz, one of the PULITZER PRIZE series, published in 1975. Bound in a SPECTACULARLY Gorgeous royal blue Moroccan cowhide, the book has navy blue French moire silk endleaves, hubbed spines, satin bookmarker, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for minor wear to corners and a small stain on inside flyleaf and minor imperfection to gilt. This volume has a copy of a painting---protected by onion-skin paper---of Ernest Hemingway that is NOT available in other editions. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, to a medical doctor and a musician mother. "Ernie" attended the local high school, writing stories for the newspaper. Hemingway did not attend college, opting to work for the Kansas City Star and later the Toronto newspapers. Hemingway married Hadley Richardson and with her "trust fund," the couple moved to Paris w Hemingway worked as a "news correspondent" and wrote novels. In Paris, Hemingway became part of the "expatriates"----along with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound. Gertrude Stein told Ernest that he and the others were part of the "lost generation." Hemingway wrote "The read more

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