Item #80576 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Herman MELVILLE.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

Item #80576

MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Original blindstamped cloth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First edition. BAL 13664, first binding, brown cloth with publisher's device. Grolier American, 60. A very good copy, professionally rebacked with spine in expert facsimile, bottom half of front endpaper professionally repaired; light scattered foxing, some pencil annotations in an early hand, else very good. Early owner's name on front free endpaper: "Caspar Shunk from `Will' Harrisburg 12 May 1857" and on verso of front free endpaper: "Mrs. Wm. F. Shunk, Pittsburg, June 1852. "Moby-Dick is the great conundrum book. Is it a profound allegory, with the white whale the embodiment of moral evil, or merely the finest story of the sea ever written? Whichever it is, now rediscovered, it stirs and stimulates each succeeding generation, whether reading it for pleasure or with a scalpel. Within its pages can be found the sounds and scents, the very flavor, of the maritime life of our whaling ancestors"--Grolier.

Price: $16,500.00

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