白鯨 : モビイ・ディック / Hakugei: Mobii dikku. Translated

by Nishizaki Ichirō by Herman Melville

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Tokyo: Jiji Tsūshinsha, 1959 . 12mo, pp. 266, 8 ; double-sided frontispiece showing Gregory Peck in the 1956 film adaptation of Moby Dick, and a painting of a whaling scene; original limp blue cloth stamped in black, preserving a near fine dust jacket. A Japanese abridgement, and a reprint of the 1956 edition. Both editions are held by the Newberry and the National Diet Library only. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:18. Item #71496

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