Melville, Herman; Moby Dick or The White Whale DELUXE
NY, GARDEN CITY, 1937 DE LUXE ED, HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: VERY GOOD
Dj is chipped/creased at edges, rubbed edges, tanned, and has a plastic cover on it. Bright gilt on cover & spine, good binding, clean body and unmarked text. Light shelf wear, and lightly tanning pages. This is Garden City's De Luxe Second trade Edition. Containing additional illustrations by Rockwell Kent not present in the first trade edition. neither the sounding whale with flukes of the top cover not the harpoon on the spine appeared on the covers of the original edition 1930 triple decker, spine faded and edgeworn. Kent's illustrations are now pershaps the best known illustrations for Moby Dick and are certainly among the most effective. The trade edition contains 8 fewer illustrations than the Deluxe (Lakeside Press edition). (Note:actually lacking 11 illustrations, including the 3 dramatic title pages, 3 half titles and some smaller cuts.
REF#:055710