[Rarebooks] FS: LEC Moby Dick

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Holiday Catalogue now posted on our website
http://www.erols.com/agvent
containing 127 select items including a selection of fine bindings and Limited 
Editions Club titles, and a large selection of signed books by Susan B. Anthony, 
P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie, Clarence Darrow, Albert Einstein, Jacqueline 
Kennedy, Thomas Mann, Thomas Merton, Ronald Reagan, John Steinbeck, and more. 
Our new list will contain a superb collection of signed Presidential items, 
mostly books.  It will appear toward the end of the month as we have just 
acquired an extraordinary grouping of material that needs to be processed.

MELVILLE, Herman. MOBY DICK. [Brattleboro, VT]: Limited  Editions
Club  1943.  Two  quarto  volumes (7-1/2" x 10") bound  in  full  dark
sheepskin  with  gilt lettering on the spines. Copy #403 of 1500  with
color  and black-and-white plates after paintings by Boardman Robinson
and  SIGNED  by  the  artist on the colophon page.  One  of  the  most
difficult  books of the press to obtain in decent condition because of
the  tendency of the leather to dry. When copies are seen, usually the
binding  is so dry it is crumbling. These volumes are in Very Good  to
Near  Fine  condition, the leather still supple with  solid  coloring.
There  is  slight and typical rubbing to the spine tips but much  less
so  than usually encountered. There is only mild sunning to the spines
which  are  usually  found very faded. The glassine is  still  present
though  with several pieces lacking along the spines. The slipcase  is
complete  and quite nice. Very Good to Near Fine in Near Fine slipcase
and uncommon thus.                                             $650.00

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