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Easton Press leather edition of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick, or The Whale," a limited edition, With Introduction by CLIFTON FADIMAN, ILLUSTRATIONS by BOARDMAN ROBINSON, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1977. Bound in a black leather, the book has sea blue moire silk end leaves,acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Herman Melville, who lived from 1819 – 1891, was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the mid-19th century. His whaling novel, "Moby Dick," published in 1851, drew on his experience at sea as a common sailor. A sailor who calls himself ISHMAEL narrates the obsessive quest of AHAB, captain of the whaler PEQUOD, for revenge on the white whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed his ship and severed his leg at the knee. During the 20th century its reputation as a Great American Novel grew. "Call me Ishmael" is one of world literature's most famous opening sentences. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. 615 pages. I offer Combined shipping.