Moby Dick; Or, The Whale.

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.