Catalogue information

LastDodo number
10114539
Area
Books
Title
Moby Dick
subtitle
or The Whale
Literary collection
Literary number
Addition to number
Publisher
Series / hero
Translator
Illustrator
Year
1930
Print Run
First edition of a re-edition
Number of pages
822
Number produced
Dimensions
 x  cm
ISBN10
ISBN13
Barcode / EAN / UPC
Language / dialect
Country of publication
Details

The true first edition is from 1851. This 1930 edition was illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Published as a three-volume set by Lakeside Press in an aluminum slipcase. Rockwell Kent was a superstar in the world of fine illustrated books in the late 1920s. He produced these nearly 300 illustrations for the deluxe edition printed in 1930 by The Lakeside Press. His inspiration came from an intense immersion in Melville's text, working for years. The result was the closest thing a Kent-Melville collaboration could come. Random House received permission to reprint Lakeside's Kent-illustrated edition, and this beautiful one-volume trade edition was the result. Rockwell Kent's illustrations had attracted considerable attention, so this was a coup for the publisher. Their eagerness to reprint Kent's designs, however, led to an embarrassing blunder, as Random House chief Bennett Cerf recalled: "We were so excited about it... we forgot to put Herman Melville's name on the cover, so our edition with 'Moby Dick Illustrated by Rockwell Kent,' on the cover, without the author's name, was a huge amusement to everyone (The New Yorker saw it)." This edition, however, did bring Herman Melville's almost forgotten book back into the spotlight. The illustrations look like woodcuts at first glance, but they are not. They are drawn with brush, pen, and ink on paper.

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Stories in this book

Story number
Moby Dick, or The Whale