HEMINGWAY, ERNEST El Viejo y el Mar (The Old Man and the Sea).
Buenos Aires, [1957]. Inscribed by Hemingway in ink on the first leaf "A Senorita Tere Garcia Mara/con afecto/Ernesto Hemingway/Pamplona 13/7/59/Pobre de Mi." Early leather backed boards lettered in gilt, the original wrapper bound in, a 1959 Pamplona tourism brochure laid-in, housed in a black morocco gilt lettered clamshell case. Accompanied by a recent letter of authenticity from Lion Heart Autographs. 6 3/4 x 4 inches (17 x 10 cm); 163 [2] pp. Toned, a few spots.

A fine relic of Hemingway's "dangerous summer," a Spanish language translation of The Old Man and the Sea inscribed from Pamplona in July 1959. Hemingway first visited the Festival of San Fermín, highlighted by the famous running of the bulls, in 1923 and his last visit was in 1959. Hemingway's presence at the bullfights that summer brought crowds and his subsequent writings on the rivalry between the top matadors Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez were collected in the posthumously published book The Dangerous Summer. Hemingway ends this inscription with the song title "Pobre de Mi," traditionally sung at the closing of the Festival of San Fermín.

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