Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(ARION PRESS.) Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. Printed in blue and black on handmade paper bearing a whale watermark. 100 woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Folio, full blue Moroccan goatskin; blue cloth slipcase, small bump near head of spine; includes two prospectuses and related ephemera. San Francisco, 1979
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one of 250 copies of the first trade edition of the Arion Press edition, designed by Andrew Hoyem. It is hailed as one of the greatest achievements in modern bookmaking.