Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
First trade edition of Melville's classic novel with Rockwell Kent's striking artistic interpretation. One of the most iconic illustrated books of the twentieth century, Kent's background as a draughtsman and his love of maritime travel and adventure made him particularly well suited to take on the illustrations.
New York: Random House, 1930. Original black boards with silver-stamped titles and design; pp. xxxii, 822, [6]. An about very good copy. Binding a touch shaken, but sturdy and square. Light shelfwear to boards with minor fraying at spine tips, silver stamping rubbed. Owner's bookplate to pastedown and signature to first blank, minor offsetting to endpapers, else internally clean. Protected in a removable archival sleeve.