Hakugei. Moby Dick. Translated wih an afterword and notes

by Takashi Nozaki by Herman Melville

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1972 . First edition of this translation; 12mo, pp. 2 , 617, 3 ; full-page map, portrait of Melville, 3 pages of ship diagrams, a color illustration of Arrowhead, and scattered illustrations throughout after Rockwell Kent; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate upside down and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original pictorial cream cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, preserving the original plastic dust

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