Moby Dick, or, the Whale Signed

by Kent by Herman Melville, Rockwell Kent

$5,000 · Offered by Back Creek Books

New York: Random House, 1930. Drawings by Rockwell Kent. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxii, 825 pages. The first trade edition of what is widely regarded as the definitive edition of 'Moby Dick.' Indeed, if not for this particular edition it is likely no one would know this book today. Melville's great novel was not well received when published in 1851, and it and he languished in relative

• Binding: Hardcover

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