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Ernest Hemingway signed presentation copy of ''The Old Man and the Sea'', the novel perhaps most responsible for Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1954, the same year he signed this copy. Hemingway writes in bold blue ink, ''For Ian / with much affection / Ernest Hemingway. / Laitokotok 1954''. The recipient is Ian Richard Whichello, a policeman in Kenya at the time of the inscription, and the place, Laitokotok, is a town in Kenya near Amboselli National Park - the site of Mount Kilimanjaro, which Hemingway and his wife visited in January 1954. Shortly after this visit the Hemingways would survive two well-known plane crashes, after which Whichello might have attended to them, given the personal nature of the inscription here. Copy published in London by the Reprint Society, 1953, with decorative illustrations throughout including the large marlin on the endpapers. Bound in teal cloth boards with silver lettering and embellishments to boards. Measures 6.25'' x 8.75''. Whichello's name on front free endpaper, a bit of foxing to endpapers and minimal expert restoration to spine. A stunning copy in very good plus condition with a bold and interesting inscription by Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway Signed Presentation Copy of ''Old Man and the Sea'' -- Signed in 1954, the Year He Won the Nobel Prize in Literature
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