Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville; Rockwell Kent (Illustrator) - 1930

Random House, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. POOR condition. No dust jacket. Black cloth over boards is faded, and the silver title and design is almost all but gone, and the same applies to the title and design on spine. Cloth is worn through on lower corner tip, and wearing to the other tips, but not through to cardboard. Tips are dented. Significant wearing to the upper and lower joints, front and back, are worn through. Lower front joint is significantly worn, as is bottom of the spine. Rip on front lower joint. Deep scratch approx 3/4" in length on lower portion of spine. Front board has a bit of a bow. Stain on fore-edge towards the bottom. Extends 3" upward from lower corner and an inch on bottom of text block from the bottom. Small stains/foxing on outside edge of block. Darkening of glue on endpapers and in the gutter. Split in gutter between flyleaf and half title page. Some of the illustrations have left imprints on the pages opposite. No marks or writing on pages.… Read More

Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Book. New. Cloth. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Reprint of 1972-1981 edition, with a new preface by the author. Cloth binding, gilt titles. Four-volume set: Volume I, The Creation of an Industry 1630-1865, 646 pp. including index; Volume II, The Expansion of an Industry 1865-1919, 813 pp. including index; Volume III, The Golden Age Between Two Wars 1920-1940, 774 pp., Volume IV, The Great Change 1940-1980, 830 pp., including index. Originally funded by a grant from the National Endowment from the Humanities, this comprehensive reference set covers virtually every aspect of the publishing industry. It was a labor of love, stretching out over 15 years, utilizing both paid and unpaid researchers, and unprecedented access into public and private libraries. Brand new in dustjackets..

E-342, E-333: Random House. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Square. Published by Random House, New York. 1930. Xxxi, 822 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Bound in black cloth with silver pictorial design on the spine and front cover. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly faded and lightly chipped at the crown of the spine). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Moby Dick looms large in America's literary consciousness — and the style and philosophical content of Melville's 1851 epic was generations ahead of its time. Today the chronicle of a vengeful captain's obsessive, self-destructive search for a white whale ranks among the great American novels, and this volume does full justice to its preeminence. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 822 pages .