Author: MELVILLE, Herman
Title: Moby Dick or, the Whale
Description: New York, The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Leon Howard. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxi, 566pp (8pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Extremely mild and minor jacket edgewear; ownership signature on half-title page and one text leaf. Tight, handsome later printing of Modern Library #119, first published in this form in 1950 and here undated (though binding, jacket flap price and other details point to circa 1960). Quite a lovely copy of the whaling classic first published in 1851. .

Keywords: American Literature


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