Moby Dick, Arion, Used (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Moser, Barry (illustrator). This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library.This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Barry Moser (illustrator). This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library.This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Barry Moser (illustrator). The Arion Press originally published this version of Melville's classic accompanied by Barry Moser's spectacular line drawings as a small limited edition. The University of California Press later published this trade edition, still a beautiful book and with the same illustrations and text. Scarce in hardcover. A large, heavy book bound in blue cloth. The book has light wear at lower corners, minimal wear at spine extremities, and a small spot of soiling on bottom of text block, otherwise fine. The dust jacket has some light edgewear and a small chip at head of spine reinforced with archival tissue. Still a very nice looking jacket, bright and clean. Price clipped. It's not often I pick up a book and think "this is something really special", but this is one of them.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Barry Moser (illustrator). First trade edition of the Arion Press publication fron 1979. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Covers mildly edgeworn. Dust jacket is partially clipped, as the limited-time $22.95 price is gone, but the $24.95 price remains. Jacket is mildly chipped.

ARION PRESS; MOSER, Barry|PENNYROYAL PRESS (illustrator). The Majestic Arion Press Moby-Dick Inscribed by Moser with an Original Pencil Drawing Beneath the Inscription. ARION PRESS. MELVILLE, Herman. MOSER, Barry, [illustrator]. PENNYROYAL PRESS. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. Full Description: [ARION PRESS]. [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. Limited to 265 copies signed by Moser. Presentation copy, inscribed on title-page "For Vance Barry Moser" with an original pencil drawing of a harpoon beneath the inscription. Folio (15 x 10 inches; 380 x 250 mm). 577 pp. Typeset by Andrew Hoyem in 18 pt. Goudy Modern with Leviathan titling, designed especially for this book. Printed in black and blue on handmade Barcham Green paper bearing a whale watermark. With 100 wood-engravings by Barry Moser. Edited from the edition published by Northwestern University and the Newberry Library by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle. Publisher's full blue morocco. Spine lettered in silver. Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Spine with some very slight rubbing and sunning. In the original publisher's cloth slipcase. Slipcase a bit summed. Overall an about fine copy of this exquisite production of Melville's classic tale. One of the most important and majestic private press books produced in America. Moser has said, "Moby-Dick was the project which broke more new ground for me than any other." ".a feat of craftsmanship unexcelled in modern printing." -William Everson, Fine Print Pennyroyal, A Miscellany, 8. HBS 69222. $25,000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. One of 265 copies of which 250 copies were for sale. However, this spectacular copy is one of only five specially bound by the press in luxurious white leather. The owner of the press, Andrew Hoyem kept one copy and this copy was owned by a private collector. The whereabouts of the other three copies are unknown, and this special edition has never appeared on the market or at auction. This book has been described by William Everson as "a feat of craftsmanship unexcelled in modern printing," and named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most beautiful books of the twentieth century. According to the 24 page prospectus for the book, this was the sixth publication issued by the press, which is described by them as "one of the most elaborate printing ventures ever to be undertaken by an American press, and nothing will be spared in the effort to make it the finest of books." There is a several page description of the making of this magnificent edition. They write: "Despite many editions -perhaps because of its length - it has not been accorded the full typographical treatment that a classic of its stature deserves".in the early days of [the press] they considered the possibility of their printing a handset folio Moby Dick. It took ten years from the early discussions for the press to secure the capital for this long-planned venture. They go on to explain in detail the type and paper selection, followed by a section on the illustrations by the renowned artist Barry Moser of the Pennyroyal Press. It was decided from the inception of the project that there would be no dramatic or interpretive scenes that would imposed on the reader's imagination. Instead, the text would be interspersed with informative depictions of subjects mentioned by Melville. It took 14 months to print this folio copy of Moby Dick. Bound in full white leather with the illustrated image of a whale debossed on the front cover and titling to the spine. With beautiful blue endpapers. The text was set by hand in Goudy Modern, with initial letters printed in blue at the start of each of the 135 chapters in Leviathan Capitals, a special alphabet designed for the purpose by Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes. Printed on Barcham Green's handmade paper, which is watermarked with the outline of a whale. Very light occasional foxing to fore-edges, not affecting the text pages. Housed in a custom box covered with gray cloth bearing a title label printed on the same white leather used on the special binding. Accompanied by the prospectus. In fine condition. Measures 10 x 15 x 3 inches. 577 pages. PRI/091924.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. One of 750 copies. This handsome edition of Moby Dick is described in a preface to this California Press offering as a refashioning of " distinguished contribution to the heritage of fine printing in the San Francisco Bay area. The original edition created by.the Arion Press, was the most majestic presentation of America's most monumental novel. .The present printing is the result of consultation between [the Arion Press].In cooperation, the two presses have devised a page with handsome dimensions, a page that, though smaller than the original, is still generous and suitable to the scope of the text." Through a photographic reproduction of the original pages, It replicates the type, initial letters, and all of the illustrations of famed artist Barry Moser. The text for this edition is the first "to use the careful editorial work of three leading scholars of Melville's writings - Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle." Bound is dark blue cloth boards with titling in silver to the spine. Binding and interior pages are in fine condition. Housed in a near fine dark blue slipcase with titling in white to spine. Measures 9 x 13.5 inches. 576 pages plus Epilogue and colophon. PRI/091924.