Moby Dick, or The Whale

Herman Melville

The Modern Library (Random House), New York. First modern library giant edition - 1944 G64 edition.

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Book: Very Good
Jacket: Good
Jacket note: The dust jacket grades Good.
Our ref: RCB-6c6e1eddeab8

What we checked, and where to see itRCB-6c6e1eddeab8 · 8 photographs of this copy

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Modern Library Giant, spine number G64

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Imprint: 'The Modern Library is published by Random House, Inc.'

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Flap and rear panel address '457 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.' (postal-zone era, c.1943-1963)

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Flap text: 'As the sixty-fourth title in the Giant series'

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Rear jacket panel: 'OVER 370 TITLES'

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Flaws, each one named

chipping and loss at head and tail of jacket spine

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green tape/adhesive repairs along jacket spine edges

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toning and soiling to jacket rear panel and flaps

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edgewear and small tears to jacket front, especially top edge

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penciled notations '275 / 229' on front flap

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This copy

First edition

What a true first shows: The true first of the novel is Harper & Brothers, New York, 1851 (issued in London as 'The Whale', Bentley, 1851). The first Rockwell Kent illustrated edition is the three-volume Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelley), 1930. This copy is the later Modern Library Giant reprint (G64), not either first.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.