Description
First trade edition of Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville, illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
Octavo, xxix, [1], 822pp, [6]. Black cloth, title stamped in silver, illustrations on cover and spine. Light soiling to endpapers, dust remnant along top edge, tide mark to lower edge of text block, solid binding. Bright silver stamping on front cover and spine. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, dampstain to spine, soiling to covers, short closed tear along top edge with tissue reinforcement, a presentable example.
