Moby Dick, or, The whaleMelville, Herman, 1819-1891, author1930.engA classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied captureBEIN 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.