Moby Dick, or, The whale

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Title: Moby Dick, or, The whale
Creator: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, author
Contributor: Holliday Bookshop, bookseller.
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971, illustrator.
Published / Created: 1930.
Publication Place: New York, Chicago, and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: Random House and The Lakeside Press
Abstract: A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture
Description: BEIN Za M497 851kb Copy 1: In original cloth. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten. Bookseller's label: The Holliday Bookshop, 49 E. 49th St., New York.
BEIN Za M497 851kb Copy 2: In special half-leather binding. Bookplate of Charles Asa Clough, Jr. Accompanied by laid-in newspaper clipping with the heading "Mrs. H. B. Thomas Dies, Daughter of Herman Melville Edgartown Summer Resident," 1938.
Illustrations are reproduced from the three volume Lakeside Press edition, also 1930.
Extent: xxxi, 822 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves : 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Fiction
Booksellers' labels
Material: illustrations ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Name): Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic): Whaling ships
Ship captains
Whaling
Whales
Subjects: Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction
Whaling ships > Fiction
Ship captains > Fiction
Whaling > Fiction
Whales > Fiction
Clough, Charles Asa, Jr., 1903-1961 > Bookplate
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 > Bookplate

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