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New York: Pocket Book, 1949. Brochado / Paperback / Broché. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º. 1 Vol. de 402-[2] pp. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London - Glasgow: Collins, , 1972. Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket). Molto buono (Very Good). With an Introduction by J.N. Sullivan. 16mo. pp. 480. Molto buono (Very Good). Sovracoperta leggermente sporca (Lightly soiled dustjacket). .

Hardback. New.

Chicago ; London : William Benton : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xx, 420 pages ; 24 cm. Series; Great books of the Western world ; 48. Notes; Spine title Britannica Great Books 48 Melville. Subjects; Whales ; Fiction. Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) ; Fiction. Whaling ships ; Fiction. Ship captains ; Fiction. Mentally ill ; Fiction. Whaling ; Fiction. Sea stories. Adventure stories ; Fiction. American literature 19th century.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 12mo. (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches). xxiii, [1], 635, [1], [6]pp. Publisher's ads in the rear. Foxing. Publisher's red cloth, cover bordered in blind and with central Harper & Brother's circular stamp in blind, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked retaining the original spine, original brown/orange coated endpapers. Housed in a cloth box. Rare first American edition of arguably the greatest work in American literature. The first American edition followed the three-volume English edition by a month and contained some thirty-five passages which had been edited out of the English edition. "[Melville's] great book, Moby Dick, was a complete practical failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harpers' fire destroyed the plates of all of his books and most of the copies remaining in stock [only about sixty copies survived the fire] ... Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby Dick, a book that has no equal in… Read More