MOBY DICK, Or The Whale.

First edition with these illustrations. Trade issue. Beautifully bound by Stephen Conway in full black leather with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Hand sewn endbands. All edges gilt. Original publisher's cloth bound in at the rear. With 272 woodcut illustrations throughout the text by Rockwell Kent. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

First produced as a three volume limited Lakeside Press edition of 1,000 copies before being published as a one volume trade edition by Random House, Rockwell's stark, dramatic visual take on Moby Dick brought the (then relatively obscure) classic American novel firmly into the 20th century and quickly reinvigorated interest in Melville's work; the Rockwell edition is even now often hailed as the definitive Moby Dick.