Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) illus. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)
Moby Dick, or The Whale.

New York: Random House, 1930.

First Kent-illustrated trade edition, octavo, extensively illustrated throughout; bound in black publisher's cloth decorated with silver; with publisher's pictorial dust jacket printed in black and blue (jacket laminated, spine sunned with small losses at head, tape reinforcements); 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.

Provenance: Dorothy E. Woodruff with bookplate to front pastedown.

Kent's striking images in black-and-white were created for an oversized 3-volume limited edition set printed by the Lakeside Press in the same year.