Moby Dick

by Herman Melville, Rockwell Kent, Illustrations

$11,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. Three volumes bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in silver; housed in the original aluminum slipcase. Near Fine with fading and droplet staining to spines, faint rubbing to boards, and slight offsetting to contents from plates. Light soiling at rear endpaper of Volume II; aluminum case is bright with light rubbing and wear. A handsome set

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