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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES. ALL BOOKS TARIFF FREE TO USA.
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES. ALL BOOKS TARIFF FREE TO USA.
A vintage hardcover edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, featuring a black leather-like cover with ornate gold foil wave patterns and gold lettering, shown standing upright on a white background.

Moby Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville. The Easton Press Collector's Edition, 1977

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£50.00 - £50.00
£50.00
£50.00 - £50.00
£50.00

Moby Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville. With an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman and Illustrations by Boardman Robinson.

Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut. 1977 Collector's edition for subscribers to the Easton Press collection 'The 100 Greatest books Ever Written'.

A fine, almost as new, copy of this beautifully produced book. Full black  leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration to front and rear covers. Spine with raised bands and gilt tooling. With blue silk moire pattern endpapers with a little colour toning to extremities, and page ribbon. 

Text is clean and bright, with full shiny gilt page edges. Text in English.

xxii + 615pp.

Weight approximately 1460g (unpacked).

Dimensions approximately 262mm high x 180mm x 49mm.