![]() Bound in teal cloth boards with silver lettering and embellishments to boards. Copy published in London by the Reprint Society, 1953, with decorative illustrations throughout including the large marlin on the endpapers. 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. ![]() 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. Hemingway writes in bold blue ink, ''For Ian / with much affection / Ernest Hemingway. ![]() 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. ![]()
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