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1930140938372New York: The Lakeside Press 1930. First Edition Thus. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus limited to 1000 copies. Three volumes in publisher's acetate jackets in aluminum slipcase. Presentation copy signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free end paper of Volume I "Inscribed with affectionate friendship to Putzie - Rockwell Kent 1950." Volumes II and III bear Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplates of Marie Luise Hinrichs. Near Fine. Narrow strips of sunning to spine cloth at ends light rubbing to cloth at extremities and light abrasions to black topstains. Pages toned and with offsetting from illustrations. Acetate wrappers are wrinkled and shrunken with age as is typical and show a bit of chipping and edge wear with some separation starting between the acetate and a paper flap on both volumes II and III; acetate on volume II with light staining. Aluminum slipcase is lightly worn bumped at top and bottom edge. A stunning presentation copy inscribed by Kent and with bookplates designed by him as well. The Lakeside Press unknown books
192212269016 vols. London: Constable 1922-24. 16 vols. 8vo finely bound in full red hard-grain morocco extra two volumes repaired some volumes lightly rubbed along the joints but generally very good. Red morocco bookplate of Lucy Smith Battson in each volume. § A magnificent set of Melville's complete works; the first collected edition limited to 750 sets of which very few came in this de luxe binding. This is set #48. Vol. 12 includes a bibliography of the prose works by Michael Sadleir. Vol. 13 is first printing of Billy Budd. BAL 13680. Constable unknown books
1939305175Saint-Paul A.-M: Les Cahiers du Contadour 1939. First edition in French one of a very few copies printed. With headpiece after woodcut by Alexandre Noll and two plates. 512 4 xx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nut brown half morocco with gilt decorative paper sides spine gilt t.e.g. wrappers preserved by Devauchelle. Textblock lightly toned else fine. First edition in French one of a very few copies printed. With headpiece after woodcut by Alexandre Noll and two plates. 512 4 xx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'Je m'appelle Ishmaèl" - véritable édition originale de Moby Dick en français. The first notice of Moby Dick in French dates from the first volume of the Revue des Deux Mondes 1853 but Melville's vast novel was not translated into French until the 1930s. Jean Giono 1895-1970 was deeply influenced by American writers of the nineteenth century starting with Whitman. "The second great American Giono discovered in the 1930s was Melville . translating Melville was a labor of love - for years Giono would read him in the open fields" Edmund White. He began his translation in 1936; Joan Smith worked up a first draft that was rewritten by Giono and her friend Lucien Jacques publisher of the Cahiers du Contadour. The translation appeared in pre-publication serial form in numbers V-VIII of the Cahiers May 1938 to February 1939.<br/>The first edition was published in the first half of 1939 in a small print run variously described as only thirty copies or 600 copies here in a choice contemporary binding with the wrappers preserved. The outbreak of war put an end to the literary efforts of the Cahiers du Contadour. Giono's translation gained wider distribution in the Gallimard reprint in May 1941. Giono's fictional reflections on Melville Pour saluer Melville were also published in 1941.<br/><br/>RARE. OCLC: 459465908 BnF; 97456850 Harvard Kentucky Les Cahiers du Contadour unknown books
192221341London Bombay Sydney: Constable and Company Ltd 1922-1924. The Standard Edition complete. Limited to 750 sets including the first publication of one of Melville's masterworks the novella Billy Budd which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers at the time. BAL 13680 noting that the volume containing The Confidence-Man also contains a bibliography of the first editions of Melville's prose works by Michael Sadleir. BAL entries also exist for individual volumes which include first editions: Billy Budd BAL 13682 noting the contents which represent "pieces here first located in book form" including the title story which was "never before published"; Poems: Battle-Pieces John Marr and Other Sailors Timoleon and Miscellaneous Poems BAL 13683 noting that the "Author's Note" p. 162 "Miscellaneous Poems" pp. 297-349 and "At the Hostelry" pp. 351-434 first appear here in book form. Regarding the format of the Constable set BAL specifies: "LP cloth: blue. Maroon-coated endpapers. Top edges gilt." descriptions to which the present set conforms. We are not aware however of another variant printing of the set. The Standard Edition was published episodically with the inevitable consequence that complete sets are rare. Seven of the volumes in the present set are in their original dust jackets which are extremely rare and fragile having been printed on heavy acidic paper. The dust jacketed volumes include the first four volumes: Typee Omoo and Mardi Vols. III-IV and Vols. X-XII: The Piazza Tales Israel Potter and The Confidence Man. Remnants of other dust jackets chiefly inside flaps are included in a few of the other volumes. The set is in exceptionally fine condition with all hinges firm and tight and with no fading to the spines and no wear or tear. 16 volumes tall 8vo original cloth t.e.g. dust jackets. The set is in exceptionally fine condition with all hinges firm and tight and with no fading to the spines and no wear or tear. Constable and Company Ltd unknown books
1922271125London: Constable 1922. First. hardcover. fine. 16 volumes. 8vo publisher's original blue cloth with ornately blind-stamped covers and gilt-lettered spines; burgundy endpapers uncut edges top edges gilt. London: Constable & Company 1922-1924. First Collected Edition.<br/><br/> The Standard Edition limed to 750 sets signed by the publisher. Includes the first publication of Billy Budd found posthumously in Conrad's papers. A fine solid set with spines just a touch sunned.<br/><br/> Constable unknown books
1930140940351Chicago: The Lakeside Press 1930. Deluxe Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition thus limited to 1000 copies. Three volumes. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in silver lacking acetate wrappers in aluminum slipcase. Near Fine with light sunning to spines very light rubbing to cloth at covers and edges offsetting from illustrations. Near Fine aluminum case is only slightly tarnished and while it does not appear dented or pinched one volume takes a little more work to pull out. A crowning achievement of machine age book design it also helped to propel Moby Dick from semi-obscurity into its current fame as perhaps the quintessential American novel. The Lakeside Press unknown books
192267786The Best Set of Herman MelvilleÃs Works and in the Original Cloth MELVILLE Herman. The Works of Herman Melville. London: Constable and Company 1922-1924. Standard Edition. Limited to 750 numbered copies this being number 319. Sixteen octavo volumes 9 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x 150 mm. Title-pages printed in blue and black. Volume XII The Confidence-Man contains a ìBibliography of the First Editions of the Prose Works of Herman Melvilleî by Michael Sadleir. Volume XIII Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces contains the first printing of ìBilly Budd Foretopman.î Original uniform blue blindstamped cloth ruled and lettered in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt others uncut. Maroon-coated endpapers. A few spines very slightly faded as usual. Some very light rubbing to head and tails of spines. Previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns. Overall an excellent copy of this set. BAL 13680 13682 and 13683. HBS 67786. $7500 Constable and Company hardcover books
192252320London Bombay Sydney: Constable and Co. Ltd 1922. Edition limited to 750 copies this no. 460 signed by the publisher with initials 16 volumes 8vo title pages printed in blue and black original blue cloth gilt-lettered spines; several spines unevenly sunned bookseller's description tipped to front free endpaper of volume I else near fine. BAL 13680 13682 Billy Budd and 13683 Poems. Contains the first printed appearance of Billy Budd as well as 14 other poems fragments etc. <br/><br/> Constable and Co., Ltd hardcover books
19325976Etching of a Hawaiian woman. Nice virgin image never framed. Hinges to top edge. Full margined 9 3/4 x 8 inches image; 14 x 10 1/4 inches overall. books
192239296London: Constable 1922 - 1924. Sixteen volumes various paginations. <br/><br/>This is the first and still the best collected edition of Melville's complete works. Volume XIII is the first publication of "Billy Budd" which was unknown until this time. Volume XVI includes the first publication of many of Melville's poems. The set is limited to 750 copies. Bound in publisher's cloth with slight tonal variation of the backstrips but all in very good condition. Constable hardcover books
1930291284Chicago: Lakeside Press 1930. Limited. hardcover. very good. Rockwell Kent. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent with 280 woodcuts many full page. 3 volumes. 4to black cloth decoratively stamped in silver spines lightly and evenly faded and with some faint staining neatly repaired at tips; inner hinge in second volume is cracked but interior is otherwise very clean and fine with many un-opened pages. Chicago: Lakeside Press 1930. Limited edition -- one of 1000 copies printed. Very good.<br/><br/> Perhaps the finest illustrated book of the 20th century. Lacking the acetate dust wrappers and the aluminum case.<br/><br/> Lakeside Press unknown books
192451856London: Constable and Company Ltd 1924. The Standard edition ltd. 750 sets. Large 8vo 16 volumes. Bound in original publishers blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Top Edge Gilt. The volume titled: "Poems" lacks a 1/2 inch triangle of cloth at the top of the spine some intermittant pencil underling "Piazza Tales" has a closed tear from one leaf having been carelesslessly opened couple of dj flaps laid in couple of nicks at the extremities of the spines otherwise this is a nice clean set previous owner's bookplate on the end paper. This set includes the first publication of Melville's Billy Budd which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers at the time. BAL 13680 13682 13683. An excellent complete set. Blanck also notes that "The Confidence Man" volume contains a bibliography of Melville's work by Michael Sadleir; "Miscellaneous Poems" and "At the Hostery" appear in a book here for the first time. Constable and Company Ltd unknown books
194311495New York: Limited Editions Club 1943. Pencil and gouache on masonite. Signed with initials "BR" Exhibition label of Kraushaar Galleries 32 East 57th. Street New York 22. 1 vols. 16 x 11.5 inches. Framed. Pencil and gouache on masonite. Signed with initials "BR" Exhibition label of Kraushaar Galleries 32 East 57th. Street New York 22. 1 vols. 16 x 11.5 inches. Moby Dick. This illustration was drawn for use in the last chapter of Moby Dick Chapter 135<br/><br/>Lewis Mumford: No one else has come so close to the spirit of Melville and Melville's character as Robinson has. His pictures would remain as precious evidence of Melville's genius even if the words that had prompted them were destroyed. Christ-Janer Boardman Robinson p. 66 Limited Editions Club unknown books
1930315539New York: Random House 1930. First trade edition. 280 woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. xxxi i 822 4 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Full navy morocco ruled and lettered in gilt for Asprey a.e.g. marbled endpapers. Kent Rockwell. First trade edition. 280 woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. xxxi i 822 4 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. One of the most attractive twentieth-century American illustrated books. Random House unknown books
1930180902005New York: Random House 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Very Good with bumping to edges and corners and pages toned. In a Good dust jacket with a strip of abrasion to the front panel affecting the title chipping edge wear and toning. Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent uncommon with bright silver stamping and in the dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1930171127003New York: Random House 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Near Fine with bump to top corner of boards pages toned. Silver stamping rather bright and fresh with just a hint of rubbing. Dust jacket with spine toned a bit of chipping and loss rubbed at folds with tape and mending tissue repairs made from the verso with the front flap formerly completely detached and mended else Very Good. A lovely example of Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent uncommon with bright silver stamping and in the dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1930180803002New York: Random House 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in silver. Near Fine with the silver stamping very sharp and bright; bump to bottom corner of front boards pages toned rear endsheet soiled. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning to the spine and chipping to the spine ends with short splits starting at the joints rubbing to flap folds with several tape reinforcements made to the verso. A lovely example of Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent with bright silver stamping and in a descent dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
19302263964Random House 1930. First Thus. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Kent Rockwell. First thus. Spine and edges lightly rubbed tiny split starting along front of spine head. 1930 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxxi 822 6 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound in full red morocco with gilt title all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent throughout. A particularly sought-after edition of Melville's famous 'tale of the whale'. Random House hardcover books
1943WRCLIT85029New York: The Limited Editions Club 1943. Two volumes. Small quarto 26 x 19 cm. Publisher's black sheepskin spines lettered in gilt. Plates some in color. Tiny nick at crown of spine of first volume very slight rubbing to the spines otherwise an uncommonly nice set. The slipcase is present but neatly split at most of the joints. First printing in this format with Illustrations by Boardman Robinson and an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Copy #417 of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. The impractical binding material has seldom withstood the passage of time and has often gone the way of the sheep that died as a prelude to its manufacture. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
197551853NY: Blue Moon Press 1975. First Edition. 4to pp. 4 132 4 p. Some toning to the top of some of the leaves in 35 loose folders 11.25" x 9.25" each enclosed in wrap-around folder with author and title on cover printed on Crane Artificial Parchment rag paper by Yorktown Printing Corporation Yorktown Heights August 1975 Sixty-five copies of this edition included an original lithograph; 15 of these also included an original drawing. Issued in an edition of 365 copies this an "imperfect" copy because it was issued without a box. Signed by the artist. Inscribed by the artist: "To David sic Metcalf Greetings Wallace Putnam To Herman Melville a world of thanks". Also signed on the colophon noting that this is a "HC" copy. This was actually given to Paul Metcalf writer and poet Metcalf was Herman Melville's great grandson. Rare OCLC locates just two copies. A portfolio of drawings and text responding to the novel Moby Dick. Blue Moon Press unknown books
197516693Mount Vernon New York: The Artist's Limited Edition 1975. Original serigraph signed by Neiman bound in as the frontispiece. With thirteen full color prints all double pages. Jacques-Yves Cousteau wrote the Preface which he also signed. Printed by The Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon. Full dark brown morocco binding by George Wieck of Moroquain in New York. Ribbon marker sewn in. Design in gold on the front cover depicting Ahab in the crow's nest with his telescope but looking up in the sky rather than searching for the whale! Slipcase covered in natural canvas with top and bottom covered in the same brown morocco. Design and typography by Bert Clarke. Paper especially made by the Curtis Paper Company. A card in a self-addressed envelope to Mount Vernon for registering the book. Number 730 of 1500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase.<br /><br />A beautiful edition with Neiman's irrepressible almost violent paintings. The Artist's Limited Edition hardcover books
19959027280Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Fine Condition. One of one hundred hand numbered copies of the regular edition the deluxe edition of 26 lettered copies was never completed. Fontispiece photograph is a kallitype print on Kitikata paper. Bound in publisher's original half red cloth and paper sew-boards. Printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press in West Burke Vermont. The sew-boards binding was learned by Wilbur Schilling from Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage in East Hampton Massachusetts. Printed on Arches MBM mouldmade paper with ochre colored endpapers handmade by MacGregor & Vinzani. First letterpress book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
1924WRCLIT84976London: Constable and Co. 1924. Large octavo. Light blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt t.e.g. Spine ends a bit worn 7cm patch of offsetting at top edge of rear free endsheet neat ink name see below small spot on upper board very good. First collective edition including the first appearance of "Billy Budd Foretopman" and a number of other prose pieces in book form. Edited by Raymond Weaver. Published as volume 13 of the Standard Edition limited to 750 sets. With the ownership signature of American literature scholar Norman Holmes Pearson. BAL 13682. Constable and Co. hardcover books
1935WRCLIT84995New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Large thick octavo. Tapa cloth over boards. Usual faint tanning to spine otherwise about fine in very good slipcase with some wear at the corners. Copy #1348 of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Harbor Press illustrated in color by Miguel Covarrubias and signed by him. With an important Introduction by Raymond Weaver who has inscribed this copy prominently on the free endsheet: "To Eleanor Metcalf with faithful regards Raymond Weaver 22 January 1936." An excellent association copy: the recipient was Melville's granddaughter and for decades a touchstone for Melville scholarship. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
198110253Bremen Maine and New York: Red Angel Press 1981. Signed Limited Edition one of 100 copies all on Fabriano paper each signed on and numbered by the artist/printer on the colophon. Page size: 12 x 12-1/4 inches. 26 pp; plus triple-page wood engraving. Bound: beige linen cloth that has been printed in very pale blue and gray at the out third front and back panels title stamped in black on spine. Front pastedown is an original paper mache sculpture of grayish-tan handmade paper of the "Rock Rodondo" with the Frigate-bird according to Melville the ".man of-war hawk.that makes his first land at Rodondo" flying towards it. The back pastedown has a tan fold over with wood engraving of Frigate-birds in flight protecting a triple-page fold-up wood engraving printed on ivory Japanese paper of the "Rock Redondo" with the aquatic birds that inhabit it. The back flyleaf contains an "Artist's Note" with a key to the birds pictured on the "tower." The binding is the result of the collaboration between Ron Keller of Red Angel Press and Philip Warner who designed and screen-printed the image on the covers. Mr. Warner who lives and works in New York City teaches at the Parsons School of Design; and his work on textiles and papers has been exhibited in numerous one-man and group shows throughout the country.<br/>This is an elaborate and unique presentation of Melville's text. Hand-set and printed in Bembo the text is handsomely set off by Keller's graceful birds. The title page also features the Frigate-bird in flight; these are blind stamped. An elegant presentation an homage to Melville. Out of print for several years it is available only on the secondary market. Red Angel Press unknown books
