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Moby Dick

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Book Description

First trade edition of the Rockwell Kent illustrated edition. Random House, New York 1930. 8 vo, 825 pp. With a new facsimile dust jacket. The mighty epic of the great white whale and Captain Ahab has only few equals in literature. Captain Ahab, whose flame of life burns out in the devouring hunt for the white whale Moby Dick. This book contains sea stories of unprecedented beauty and free and melancholy dialogs between the whalers about grief and fleeting luck. With numerous bw illustrations by Rockwell Kent some of them are full page. Book is in very good condition, bound in attractive black cloth with silver lettering and design on the front board and spine. Miniscule rubbing at spine ends and the corners of the front board.The edges of the text block and the endpapers are slightly tanned. Otherwise clean and tight. Facsimile dust jacket is fine and now protected by a transparent archival sleeve.
Author Herman Melville (Illustrated by Rockwell Kent)
Date 1930
Binding Hardcover with fdj.
Publisher Random House
Illustrator Rockwell Kent
Condition Very good
Pages 825

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