May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SPRUANCE, BENTON.) Thompson, Lawrance. Moby Dick: The Passion of Ahab. 26 color lithographs by Spruance with text by Thompson, inspired by Melville's Moby-Dick. 559x406mm; 22x16 inches, sheets, some minor marginal wear to first few plates, repair to clean tear at lower margin of plate 1. Text volume is small folio, printed wrappers; one illustration on title-page. Both laid into publisher's large gilt-lettered cloth portfolio. Composed at The Anthoensen Press and printed by the Meriden Gravure Co. one of 450 trade copies. Barre, Mass., 1968