MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
$60,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-141417
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition, first issue binding, with the circular Harper's device of Melville's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth (BAL's A grain), covers stamped in blind with the publisher's circular device at the center within a heavy blind rule frame, orange-coated endpapers. In near fine condition with some usual of the usual foxing to the pages. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made in the 1930s. A completely unrestored example of this cornerstone. An exceptional example, one which has been protected in a clamshell box for years.
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale.
$60,000.00
Out of Stock
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