Moby Dick or, The Whale - Hardcover

Herman Melville

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520043545 ISBN 13: 9780520043541

Publisher: University of California Press, 1981

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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From the Author:

Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819 in New York City. Son of a prosperous importer and a famous grandfather, Melville became a prolific writer at a very young age. Melville died on September 28, 1891.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0520043545
• ISBN 13: 9780520043541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576
• Illustrator: Barry Moser