Ernest Hemingway Authentic Signed 8.25x12.5 Contract BAS #AD04275
This Autographed 8.25x12.5 Contract has been Personally Signed by Ernest Hemingway. This item is 100% Authentic to include a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) / hologram by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website. This 8.25x125 document in Spanish dated January 1953 authorizes the translation of The Old man and the Sea in to Spanish. In part (translated): "The first part: Ernest Hemingway, writer?citizen of United States?resident of 'La Vigia'?The second part: the magazine Bohemia, represented by its director Mr. Miguel Angel Quevedo, have agreed on the following: 1. Mr. Hemingway is the author of the novel written in English 'The Old Man and the Sea'?authorizes Mr. Quevedo, without a fee, to publish once in the magazine Bohemia, of Havana?the Spanish translation of said novel?The magazine?in exchange for this free right to publish, promises to give?$1000 to the San Lazaro Leper Sanatorium?so that the said hospital can buy televisions and radios for the use of the patients." Signed at the conclusion in fountain pen by Ernest Hemingway, and countersigned in ballpoint by Miguel Angel Quevedo.