February 29, 2024
The Lakeside Press Moby Dick ft. Rockwell Kent (1930) *Temporary sale*
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The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1930 edition of Moby Dick, illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One of the Deluxe Edition Print of 1000 copies. In three volumes, encased in a metal slipcase. When released in 1930, it sold out immediately. A publishing masterpiece, can be yours. *Temporary sale* lowering price this week only. Great price for copy in this good of condition (as good as you will find for this rare edition). Will only go up from here. Here is the rare three volume set of Herman Melville's epic "Moby Dick", in fine to very fine condition. Profusely illustrated by Rockwell Kent, it is one of only one thousand copies published by the Lakeside Press of Chicago. It has become the touchstone by which all other editions of Melville's work are judged. In his "Checklist of Editions of "Moby Dick", Thomas Tanselle calls this the "MOST ELABORATE PHYSICAL PRESENTATION WHICH HAD BEEN RECORED OF MOBY DICK . . . AND ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF BOOKMAKING TO BE FOUND AMONG ALL THE EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS". This three-volume folio edition was designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Kent combined his love of painting with years of travel experience in Maine, Newfoundland, Alaska, and Greenland. The 280 images for Moby Dick which he created from first-hand knowledge of the sea are also considered to be a masterpiece and a landmark of 20th century
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