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Herman Melville. Moby Dick. Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine hardcover with very good unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Dust jacket has closed tears on the head and heel of spine.
Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Photoplay edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 511, [5]; frontispiece and 6 plates from scenes from the movie starring John Barrymore; a very good copy in original red cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine, in a compromised and fragile dust jacket with chips and tears but with very minor loss of lettering. Verso of jacket with copious ads for other G & D titles. The novel was first published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1925. Later printings of it, as here, have the note on the title page "Profusely illustrated with scenes from the talking picture a Warner Brother and Vitaphone Production starring John Barrymore" which appeared in theatres in 1930. Tanselle 11.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.