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MELVILLE, Herman

Moby-Dick or The Whale (Limited Edition)

Moby-Dick or The Whale (Limited Edition)

London: The Folio Society, 2009

Illustrated by KENT, Rockwell

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Moby-Dick or The Whale, by Herman Melville. London: The Folio Society, 2009. Type: Fournier. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum and bound by Real Lachenmaier. Black two-volume clamshell box titled (as above) in silver.

Limited Edition, luxuriously bound in black leather with commentary volume by preceding the standard edition by eight years, hand-numbered 305.

The two volumes are as follows: 

[1] Moby Dick or The Whale, Herman Melville. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. 240 × 178 × 57 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii xxxii, [1–2] 3–730 [731–736]. Full black leather blocked in silver and grey with a design based on an illustration by Kent; silver endleaves. Leaf preceding the title-page reads in part ‘limited to 1750 numbered copies’. Kent’s plentiful illustrations were first used in the 1930 Lakeside Press edition. 

[2] Moby Dick, A Commentary by Harold Beaver. 241 × 176 × 27 mm. Pp. [i–ii], [1–6] 7–306 [307–310]. Black buckram blocked in silver; silver endleaves. The commentary provides an invaluable guide to the novel's rich literary and biblical references.

"Commands a stillness in the soul, an awe... One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." (D. H. Lawrence)

Near-fine volumes with pages clean, bright and tightly bound, and only a minuscule mark to fore edge. In like solander box with lightest of shelf-wear. A majestic edition of one of the greatest novels of all time. Melville's tale of the hunt for the white whale is at once a story of adventure on the high seas and an exploration of the unchartered regions of the soul.

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