Lot 237 of 413:
Arion Press Moby Dick  

Click image to enlarge
Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$7,200
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000

Title:
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Author:
Melville, Herman

Place:
San Francisco

Publisher:
Arion Press

Date:
1979

Description:

Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. (15x10"), full blue Moroccan goatskin, spine lettered in silver, blue cloth slipcase. One of 265 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press, in handset Goudy Modern on paper handmade by Barcham Green at Hayle Mill.

One of the masterpieces from the Arion Press, a superb printing of this American literary high spot, with striking illustrations drawn and engraved by Barry Moser. William Everson wrote in Fine Print: "Historically, the two great typographical edifices of West Coast printing are the Grabhorn Leaves of Grass and the Nash Divine Comedy. Now the Arion Press Moby-Dick takes its place beside them. This constitutes a feat of craftsmanship unexcelled in modern printing." 


Lot Amendments

Condition:
General light wear to slipcase with some foxing, sunning to edges and spine; some light wear to leather with rubbing to extremities, good amount of wormholing to spine leather with a bit of binding string protruding from one of the holes near bottom of spine; foxing to textblock edges, occasional faint toning to interior; very good.


 
Item number:
308371
Shipping info:

We have a full service shipping department to ensure proper packing and safe delivery of purchases at reasonable cost. We are specialists at packing and shipping books and works on paper.   All lots purchased by the same client are combined for shipping in order to keep the cost as economical as possible.  Our preferred method for domestic shipments is UPS Ground but we can also ship via FedEx or USPS Priority Mail. We do NOT ship USPS Media Mail under any circumstances.For international orders we select the most appropriate carrier depending on the value and weight of the items purchased.  We are happy to accommodate special arrangements by request.

Invoices are sent out the day following the auction and include a minimum $10 handling fee plus actual shipping and insurance charges.

Shipping estimates can be obtained  by contacting [email protected] prior to the auction.

 

Terms and conditions

CONTRACTS

All accepted bids are contracts and are considered final and non withdrawable.

BUYER'S PREMIUM

A buyer's premium of 20% will be applied to all purchases.

ONLINE BIDDING

The person posting the bids online has to be the person who has registered for the auction.

 
https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/512/lot/167938/Moby-Dick-or-The-Whale?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F512%2F%3Fpage%3D1%26sort%3D8%26dir%3D1
www.pbagalleries.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-16
29018
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:SDYO4R5Y26USXNIX32IQKHCK7YTI2EG6
<urn:uuid:fd3e1ffc-7fc3-4725-962e-6ba373c7a1b8>
2020-04-10T01:04:08Z
104.26.0.12
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:73LKCHUTKPRMOIFFCEJXJ4FPZWUFPPFE
<urn:uuid:15583c5c-a30c-4eed-aa4b-228f8cec048b>
https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/512/lot/167938/Moby-Dick-or-The-Whale?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F512%2F%3Fpage%3D1%26sort%3D8%26dir%3D1
response
<urn:uuid:65c0de2f-a988-49a0-98e0-64e9ce247fa8>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-86.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/