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MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). -- KENT, Rockwell (1882-1971), illustrator. Moby Dick, or The Whale. New York: Random House, 1930.
8vo. Numerous illustrations by Kent. Original pictorial black cloth stamped in silver; original dust jacket (spine sunned, edgewear with some chipping, few small tape repairs on verso). Provenance: Peter Whittemore, great-great-grandson of Herman Melville (gift inscription on half-title verso); G. Wilder Chandler (ownership signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST TRADE EDITION of Rockwell Kent’s illustrated Moby Dick, a small format, one–volume version published following the Lakeside Press three–volume limited edition.