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Melville, Herman (1819-1891) & Rockwell Kent, illus. Moby Dick, in an evocative binding.
New York: Random House, 1930.
First Kent-illustrated edition, octavo; with his memorable black-and-white images originally created for the oversized 3-volume limited edition set printed by The Lakeside Press in the same year; no. 93 of 100 copies specially bound in white leather by Exeter Bookbinders, front panel lettered in gilt and blind-stamped with lines resembling those on a whale's face, the center features a prosthetic glass eye with leather eyelids (scattered marginal thumbing and small stains, a few corner creases); 7 x 5 1/4 in.
