Moby Dick la balena bianca. Translated and abridged

by Romaualdo Bacci. Illustrated by F. Baldi by Herman Melville

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Bologna: Edizioni Capitol, 1959 . 8vo, pp. 2 , 190; 4 color plates; cushioned pictorial boards; fine copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in lower margin of title page. An abridgement, copy no. 986 of an unspecified limited edition; first published in 1956 but this 1959 printing is not found in OCLC. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:40. Item #62289

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