Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, First Trade Edition Thus Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York: Random House, 1930. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. First Trade Edition with Kent Illustrations. Rebound in full leather. Housed in a matching custom archival slipcase. Presented is a first trade edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. First published in 1851, the book was issued again by Lakeside Press in 1930 in a three-volume edition, the first to feature Rockwell Kent's beautiful illustrations, and limited to only 1000 copies.  The limited edition quickly sold out and was followed by an equally popular one-volume trade edition, published later that year by Random House and again printed by Lakeside Press. This trade edition combined the three-volume set into one volume and helped establish Moby-Dick as an American Classic. This book featured here is a first trade edition and has been professionally rebound in black leather boards with silver embossed stamps decorating the cover and spine, inspired by the original Kent’s illustrations. It is ho