Melville, Herman
Rare books by Herman Melville, including first editions and rare and finely bound copies of Moby Dick.
MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. 1851
£25,000
First American edition, in the first binding with orange endpapers and the publisher's device stamped centrally on the sides. The American edition was the first to appear under the...
12mo. Original purple-brown cloth, publisher's devices to each board in blind, titles to spine gilt, orange coated endpapers. Housed in a blue half morocco slipcase... Read more
MELVILLE, Herman.
The Works . 1922–24
£12,500
The standard edition, limited to 750 copies. The Standard Edition was published episodically, and includes, among other pieces, the first edition of the novella Billy Budd, which...
16 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent full blue morocco, double red morocco labels, spines with gilt ship motifs in compartments, gilt rules to spines and sides,... Read more
(KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby Dick or The Whale. 1930
£7,500
First Rockwell Kent edition, one of a limited edition of 1,000 sets. In 1926 Rockwell Kent (1882–1971), then just beginning to establish his fame as an artist, was approached by...
3 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, decoration to the upper boards and titles to spines in silver, top edges stained black, others uncut. In the original acetate... Read more
(KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby Dick or The Whale. 1930
£2,500
First Rockwell Kent trade edition, first printing. With the illustrator's signed presentation inscription to the original front free endpaper in pencil "To Horton Trautman from his...
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in black morocco, lettered and decorated in silver after the original Rockwell Kent designed binding, pictorial block of a... Read more
(KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby Dick or The Whale. 1930
£1,250
First Rockwell Kent trade edition, first printing. First published the same year by the Lakeside Press of Chicago in a three-volume limited edition, this trade edition proved...
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, lettered and decorated in silver after the original Rockwell Kent designed binding, pictorial block... Read more
(BARRYMORE, John) MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby Dick or The White Whale. 1925 [1930]
£475
Second edition thus, the companion volume to the 1930 film based loosely on Melville's novel. Moby Dick was originally filmed in 1925 as a silent picture titled The Sea Beast and...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and ship design to spine and upper board in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 plates from film... Read more
MELVILLE, Herman.
Omoo. 1926
£250
First Schaeffer edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 7 plates by Mead Schaeffer. Mark to upper board. An... Read more
MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby-Dick. 1988
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
