Moby Dick by Herman Melville [LEATHER-BOUND HARDCOVER] 1986 • The Booklovers Library

Moby Dick by Herman Melville  LEATHER BOUND EDITON [1986] THE BOOKLOVERS LIBRARY Rare 1986 vintage European import. Beautiful, compact, hardcover w gilded nautical adorned frontispiece and spine, raised bands on spine, and marbled endpapers. Book is like new with mild shelf wear to boards and a touch of tanning to pages.  Beautiful  "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound in