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Moby Dick; or, the Whale
Herman Melville
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Description for Moby Dick; or, the Whale
Paperback. The classic story of Moby Dick, the whale pursued relentlessly by the crazed Captain Ahab. Num Pages: 600 pages, 100 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 255 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1224.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520045484
SKU
V9780520045484
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-22
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