1930 Rare First Edition - Moby Dick by Melville illustrated by Rockwell KentAuthor: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Title: Moby Dick, or The Whale. Publisher: New York, Random House, 1930. First one volume illustrated edition by Rockwell Kent. Language: Text in English. Size: 7. 5 x 5. 5 inches. Pages: xxxi 822 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good binding in the original publishers black cloth with striking silver pictorial stamping to front cover and spine. The front board features Kents iconic image of

The book: A beautifully bound early edition of one of the most celebrated narrative poems of the Romantic era

standing at the threshold between Augustan formality and the emerging sensibility of Romanticism

an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school

Binding: Attractive and near fine original blue full-cloth binding with dark blue decorative titles and illustration on the front cover and spine

rendered with delicacy

Size: 11" x 7

The 1951 Scribner’s edition

Binding: Fine full cloth binding (hinges fine) under a protective mylar cover

also Swedish

Though biographical details remain scarce

Edited by Antonio Bulifon

both of which capture the charm of farm and animal life through his unique artistic style