Melville, Herman; Moby Dick: The Whale
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., 1937 , HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: Second Trade Edition, GOOD
Pictorial dust jacket M IS MISSING FRONT OF DJ . Mylar cover. Gilt design on front cover and spine. Top of spine discolored. Black and white frontispiece. Black and white illustrations. Edges browning. Pages lightly browning. 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.
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