Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

$50,000 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Full Description:MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.First edition. Large twelvemo 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 190 x 125 mm . xxiii, 1, blank , 634, 1, epilogue , 1, blank , 6, publisher's advertisements pp.BAL first binding of drab purple-brown “A” cloth. Covers stamped in blind with a heavy rule frame

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