Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Hemingway, Ernest.. The Old Man and the Sea.. No place: Limited Editions Club., 1990.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Publisher's half-blue morocco and gray linen boards. Oblong folio. Black cloth suede-lined clamshell box with leather spine label. Illustrated with 5 photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Limited to 600 copies signed by the photographer. Publisher's newsletter laid in. A fine copy in a lightly worn slipcase. Foreign postage extra on this large and heavy item.
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Limited Editions Club, 1990.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy #253 of 600 numbered copies signed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. A stunning limited edition. Beautifully bound in gilt-stamped blue goatskin over light brown linen boards; housed in publisher's black cloth clamshell box with gilt-stamped black leather spine label, interior lined with blue velour. The book is fine (the goatskin has unique grain and scars like all copies); the slipcase is faded with light wear and bumping to one corner. Club Newsletter (Series 50, Volume III), laid in loose, together with a letter from the Easton Press about the book (after apparently acquiring the balance of the edition). Illustrated with 5 photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1990.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1990.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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. Very good condition.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.