MELVILLE. HERMAN. ; KENT. ROCKWELL. Illustrates. — MOBY DICK. Or, The Whale.

Random House. New York. 1930. FIRST TRADE ROCKWELL KENT EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated by Rockwell Kent with woodcuts throughout the text, with full-page plates, chapter head and tailpieces, other smaller cuts in the text. Finely bound in recent full black morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Single wavy line gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt. ----- Published in the same year by the Lakeside Press of Chicago in a large format, three-volume, limited edition, this trade edition proved immensely popular. It has been credited with contributing greatly to the rediscovery of Moby Dick as a classic. A fine copy.