BARRY MOSER’S HEAVILY ANNOTATED COPY, with his markings, underlinings and notes in pencil and ink throughout indicating many of his references for the subjects of his illustrations for the monumental Arion Press edition (1979), with inserted slips and notes, etc. Some annotations adding instructions to himself, such as: “vertical images - never wider than 17 picas.” On the final blank he quotes Melville’s Fossil Whale and book analogy (Chapter 14): “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though may there who have tried it. Ch. 104”. Accompanied by Moser’s copy of a trade edition of the University of California reprint of Arion Press edition, small 4to, original cloth, in dust jacket; and his copy of Herman Melville. Selected Tales & Poems. Edited by Richard Chase. New York, [1965]. Later paperback edition.