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Boston, Mass.: L. C. Page [1950]. 14th impression. Hard Cover. [viii]-xii, [9]-533, [534-543] p.; 20 cm. Page first published their edition of Moby Dick in 1892, a year after the author's death, when his reputation had reached bottom. Very Good, paper toned, bookplate/ dj good, spine sunned. Stock#47991.

New York: Pocket Book, 1949. Brochado / Paperback / Broché. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º. 1 Vol. de 402-[2] pp. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Goldsmith Publ. CHICAGO, 1952. HBDJ, 1952, few pencil marks, small chip spine Ends DJ & ARound Edges, vG/VG-, GreEn cLoth wItH Black Lettering Cover FADE ExtremIties & Spine, 249 pgs. Hard Cover.

London - Glasgow: Collins, , 1972. Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket). Molto buono (Very Good). With an Introduction by J.N. Sullivan. 16mo. pp. 480. Molto buono (Very Good). Sovracoperta leggermente sporca (Lightly soiled dustjacket). .

Hardback. New.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 12mo. (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches). xxiii, [1], 635, [1], [6]pp. Publisher's ads in the rear. Foxing. Publisher's red cloth, cover bordered in blind and with central Harper & Brother's circular stamp in blind, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked retaining the original spine, original brown/orange coated endpapers. Housed in a cloth box. Rare first American edition of arguably the greatest work in American literature. The first American edition followed the three-volume English edition by a month and contained some thirty-five passages which had been edited out of the English edition. "[Melville's] great book, Moby Dick, was a complete practical failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harpers' fire destroyed the plates of all of his books and most of the copies remaining in stock [only about sixty copies survived the fire] ... Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby Dick, a book that has no equal in… Leer más