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9780520045484
Moby Dick Or, the Whale
by Melville, Herman, Moser, Barry, Hart, James D.
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- Comments: Moser, Barry (illustrator). First Edition. This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places,...
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- ISBN-13: 9780520045484
- ISBN: 0520045483
- Publisher: University of California Press
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"High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in [MOBY-DICK]."Melville, Herman is the author of 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale ' with ISBN 9780520045484 and ISBN 0520045483.
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