Mocha Dick, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Enos, Randall (illustrator). First Edition. First edition with full number line. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition. Prior library item with normal library markings. Small torn area inside the back cover from where a label was removed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First thus. Former Shoshoni Library copy, lettering to spine, pocket affixed to lower left corner of front pastedown, small stamp near lower edge of title page, the letter "S" in ink twice to upper right corner of title page. Octavo. Greenish-grey cloth boards with red and blue illustration to front. Upper area of boards are toned. Corners, crown and heel lightly bumped and rubbed. Small dent/shallow puncture in gulley along hinge of rear board. Decorated pastedowns and endpapers. 48pp. Black and white Pictures throughout by Donald McKay.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus; First Printing. This is story, originally written by Reynolds and published in a magazine in 1839, in which Herman Melville was inspired to write Moby Dick. This is a rare copy of the first illustrated edition. Beige paper covered boards are cover hinges weakened but still holding well. Binding is tight. Illustrated end sheets and paste downs toned with very modest soiling. Pages are clean and near pristine. Illustrated throughout in 2-color including plates. .; 90 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, rebacked in cloth/gilt. Vol. XIII, nos. 3-6, March through June, 1839, plus editor's table. On pp. 377-391 in the May issue is "Mocha Dick: or the White Whale of the Pacific: a Leaf from a Manuscript Journal. " This story inspired Melville's Moby Dick, 12 years later. Boards rubbed, corners rounded. Mild foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181-554 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition thus. Originally published in an 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine, this account of a rogue albino sperm whale that lived in the southeastern Pacific Ocean served as part of the inspiration behind Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick (1851). From the library of Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, with his ink stamp to the front pastedown. Quarto: [6], 90, [4] pp. with illustrations (etched reproductions of linoleum prints) by Lowell LeRoy Balcom. Original cream paper-covered boards, with black-stamped titles. Minor smudge to the fore-edge of the first few leaves. The dust jacket is moderately toned, with some general wear along the extremities; otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The inspiration for Herman Melville's MOBY DICK, originally published in "The Knickerbocker" in 1839. Illustrated by Lowell LeRoy Balcom. First printing thus. Very good in a very good (trace edge wear and age toning) dust jacket.; 90 pages.