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Lot 119
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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[MOSER, Barry (b. 1940), illustrator]. MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby Dick; or, The Whale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Folio. Woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. WITH AN ORIGINAL REMARQUE BY MOSER in pencil of a whale, accomplished in the lower margin beneath his woodcut of the whale. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver; slipcase (slightly bumped).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 copies, SIGNED BY MOSER of this facsimile reprint of the 1979 edition printed by Arion Press, described Bancroft Library director James D. Hart as "the most majestic presentation of America's most monumental novel." WITH ADDITIONAL REMARQUE IN PENCIL BY MOSER.