Moby Dick o la balena. Traduzione di Bernardino Vieri. Illustrazioni di Giorgio De Gaspari

by Herman Melville

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First edition

Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1955 . Small 4to 23.5 cm , pp. 2 , 149, 3 ; 4 color plates; pictorial boards; fine copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in lower margin of title page. Issued as no. 11 in the publisher's Classici Collezione per Ragazzi series. First edition of this abridgement. The first Italian translation was by Pavese in 1932. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:38. OCLC locates the Newberry copy and one

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