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Moby Dick Or, the Whale
Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author), Moser, Barry (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0520045483     ISBN-13: 9780520045484
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1983
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Annotation: The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on the version prepared by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle. Now this magnificent typographic and illustrated edition of the great American novel is available for the general reader and student, for the family library, and for all lovers of beautiful books.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 81040320
Lexile Measure: 1150
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.5" W x 9.8" (2.10 lbs) 608 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 711
Reading Level: 10.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 42.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened Leviathan. The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library.

This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased.