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Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. xxxi, [1], 822, [6] pp., illus. As issued, in publisher's black cloth, lacking dust jacket. Binding rubbed and hinges a trifle loose; nevertheless, it presents fairly well. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1936, otherwise, internally clean. Three asterisks stamped beneath the imprint on the title page--a stamp seen on other, but not all copies of the Cassell edition, nevertheless likely from the publisher. This appears to be the first English edition, though the binding does not have the title stamped in gilt on the front cover as seen in other examples. Tanselle, in his A Checklist of Editions of Moby-Dick, 1851-1976, writes of the first, quarto edition of Kent's work: "The most elaborate physical presentation which had been accorded to Moby-Dick up to this time, and one of the finest examples of bookmaking to found among all the editions of his work. Kent's illustrations are now perhaps the best-known illustrations for Moby-Dick and are certainly among the most effective" (from Tanselle, No. 17). And indeed, Kent's illustration is singular and captured in this present Cassell edition (Tanselle, No. 18a) which was printed by the Lakeside Press, after a second or trade edition in a reduced-size, one-volume format (as here) was printed for Random House.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. London; Cassell;, 1930.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Very good with a small ownership inscription and wear to the top of the spine - some loss the headband and joints split on each side for approx 10 cm. Lacks dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. Cassell & Company, Limited 1930, London, 1930.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK Edition. xxxii, 827 pp. Black gilt lettered cloth. Minor marking to the spine and boards, slight wear to extremities. Light spots to endpapers and fore-edge, one or two other spots but generally internally clean. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Rockwell Kent. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom