This gift-quality decorator edition of Melville's classic is bound in dark blue leather boards, with allover gilt decoration in a wave pattern, and gilt lettering. The cover has a stylized gilt illustration of a whale. All page edges are gilt; a ribbon bookmark is bound into the book. Endpapers are watered silk. This edition is as new from the publisher, encased in sealed shrink-wrap. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Boardman Robinson appear throughout. 615 pages; approx. 6"x9".
- MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE
- Herman Melville
- Boardman Robinson, illustrator
- The Easton Press, 1977