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Melville, Herman. Moby Dick GARDEN. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1937.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second Trade Edition Spine is sunned. ink inscripition on frontend piece, back endpiece also has some pencil markings. Numerous black and white illustrations. Slight creasing of top cornors of first 220 pages. Small amount of yellowing of pages. Slight fraying of spine at edges. DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: 825
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick DELUXE ED.. GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING, GARDEN CITY, NY, 1937.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Blue Ilustrated Hard Back Cover. Cover has Gold gilt illustration and spine has blurry gold lettering. Spine has Water soiling that does not affect text in book. Pages are very clean with slight aged toning. Contains Black and White Illustrations. Overall in fair condition. DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: DELUXE ED 822
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.77 + shipping
Description: xxxii, 822, [2] pp. Octavo. No dust-jacket. Original blue cloth with gilt whale design on spine and facade. Gilt lettering on spine. Trimmed edges. Previous owner's bookplate on paste-down. Inscribed by previous owner on front free-endpaper in blue ink. Half-title included. B/W frontispiece. Further B/W illustrations throughout book, all by Rockwell Kent. Kent's illustrations in this edition have been taken from his drawings in The Lakeside Press three volume limited edition. Illustrations unreferenced in contents. Very little dentng to cloth boards or spine. Cloth of book well-preserved outside of very minor tears at the top and bottom edges of spine. Slight fading and loss of gilt to spine. Minor discoloration to facade as well as slight loss of gilt due to wear over time. Minor staining to fore-edge. Interior is extremely clean and undamaged. A good copy of this 1937, De Luxe edition. The still renowned and widely studied 1851 novel, Moby Dick, otherwise known as the Whale, followed a mass of whale-hunters and their subject, Moby Dick, a white sperm-whale. The novel, in its tumultuous development, worked to symbolize and analyze theism while remaining in many ways ambiguous. Considered to be one of the greatest pieces of American literature ever produced, the thematic intensity of Moby Dick is heightened in this edition by way of Rockwell Kent's illustrative contributions. Dying in 1971, Kent was a highly regarded American painter, illustrator, writer, sailor, and adventurer.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick: The Whale. GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1937.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 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. DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: 822 Second Trade Edition, GOOD. JACKET: TATTERED DJ
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick or The Whale. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1937.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The De Luxe Edition with Rockwell Kent's illustrations. Gilt lettering and "whale plunging into water" illustration on the front blue board. 8vo, 824pp. The book's spine is sun-faded, in all other respects a VG+ copy of this fine book.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$207.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second Trade Edition, Spine is sun faded, gold guilded design on front cover of the tail of a whale sticking out of the ocean, a harpoon is on the spine along with the title and author's name in gold letters. DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: 822
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$215.00 + shipping
Description: Dark blue cloth cover with gilt designs on spine and front. Spine shows wear at top and bottom and is quite faded. Slight wear through at corners. Front end page has name of former owner. Pages are clean but yellowing, binding is tight. Unique, stark black and white illustrations by Rockwell Kent. DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: 822
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick or the Whale KENT ILL.. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1937.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue Hard Back Cover. Gold Gilt design on front. Pages have aged toning. Text is clear. Contains Black and White Illustrations. Overall in good condition. DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: 822
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, Or The Whale. Garden City Publishing Co., 1937.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth over boards. Gilt on cover and spine. Edges and corner rubbed and bumped. Spine a little faded. Page edges are age toned. Wonderful Rockwell Kent illustrations throughout. DJ has some wear and chipping on edges. Spine faded. Not price clipped. In archival cover.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick: or The Whale. Garden City Publishing Co, 1937.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1937 Moby Dick Herman Melville Whaling Voyage Rockwell Kent Illustrated ART I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Moby Dick is perhaps the most famous sea adventure novel of the 19th-century. First appearing in periodicals, Herman Melville s most famous work saw an initial mix of responses on its way to becoming a Great American Novel , even causing authors like William Faulkner to wish they had written the book themselves. While the work itself is a story of hunting the great whale Moby Dick, it is written with themes on social class, good and evil, and even the existence of God. This valuable 1937 DeLuxe edition was published by Garden City Publishing and includes famous illustrations by Rockwell Kent. The Kent illustrated editions are considered the best of all Moby Dick printings and are known to have propelled Moby Dick to the classic status it has today. Item number: #25122 Price: $550 MELVILLE, Herman Moby Dick: or The Whale New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937. DeLuxe edition Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o xxxi, [1], 822, [6] o Heavily illustrated with full page and in-text illustrations throughout Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Decorative cloth Size: ~8in X 5.75in (20.5cm x 14.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 25122 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.