Moby Dick; Or, the Whale, by Herman Melville, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, First Trade Edition Thus, 1930

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York: Random House, 1930. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. First trade edition (thus). Octavo. Original publisher’s pictorial black cloth boards, stamped in silver. Original pictorial dust jacket. Presented with new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case, with raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to spine.  Presented is a first trade edition (thus) of Moby-Dick; Or, the Whale by Herman Melville. First published in 1851, the book was reissued by Lakeside Press in 1930 in a three-volume limited 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 printed by Lakeside Press. These two illustrated Rockwell Kent editions helped establish Moby-Dick as an American classic. The book featured here is the small format, one-volume first trade edition (thus), filled wi