Description Charles Scribner’s Sons / J. S. Reginald Saunders and Company, Canada, 1962, code C-12.62 (H) on copyright page. Former school text. Hard cover, 159 pages including Study Guide by Mary A. Campbell. Blue boards with blue illustration and black lettering on front, black and blue lettering on spine. Tiny tear to cloth at upper front corner, spine ends bumped; some soil, marks and stains on boards,; binding sound. Inked ownership and notes blacked out on FEP, inked definition at top of p. 5 and pencil notation on p. 6; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; occasional age spot/smudge. Short novel about an old Cuban fisherman, Santiago, who, after a long stretch of being unable to catch any fish, goes out into the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida and there struggles with a giant marlin for days. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.