Description

Book Synopsis
Includes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser.

Trade Review
"Andrew Hoyem’s Arion Press edition of Moby Dick, published in San Francisco in 1979, in an edition of 265 total copies, is considered one of the two or three greatest American fine press books ever. . . .a trade edition published by University of California Press retains the look of the type and the illustrations, done in woodcut by Barry Moser." * The New Antiquarian *
"A great American edition with features more diverse than those in any previous edition of Melville's classic." -- Stuart C. Sherman, * Fine Print *

Table of Contents
ETYMOLOGY
EXTRACTS

CHAPTER I Loomings
2 The Carpet Bag
3 The Spouter-Inn
4 The Counterpane
5 Breakfast
6 The Street
7 The Chapel
8 The Pulpit
9 The Sermon
1O A Bosom Friend
II Nightgown
I2 Biographical
I3 Wheelbarrow
I4 Nantucket
IS Chowder
I6 The Ship
I7 The Ramadan
I8 His Mark
I9 The Prophet
20 All Astir
2I Going Aboard
22 Merry Christmas
23 The Lee Shore
24 The Advocate
25 Postscript
26 Knights and Squires
27 Knights and Squires
28 Ahab
29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
30 The Pipe
3I Queen Mab
32 Cetology
33 The Specksynder
34 The Cabin Table
35 The Mast-Head
36 The Quarter-Deck · Ahab and all
37 Sunset
38 Dusk
39 First Night-Watch
40 Forecastle-Midnight
41 Moby Dick
42 The Whiteness of the Whale
43 Hark!
44 The Chart
45 The Affidavit
46 Surmises
47 The Mat-Maker
48 The First Lowering
49 The Hyena
50 Ahab's Boat and Crew-Fedallah
51 The Spirit-Spout
52 The Pequod meets the Albatross
53 The Gam
54 The Town Ho's Story
55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales
56 Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
57 Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.
58 Brit
59 Squid
6o The Line
61 Stubb kills a Whale
62 The Dart
63 The Crotch
64 Stubb's Supper
65 The Whale as a Dish
66 The Shark Massacre
67 Cutting In
68 The Blanket
69 The Funeral
70 The Sphynx
71 The Pequod meets the Jeroboam ·Her Story
72 The Monkey-rope
73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale
74 The Sperm Whale's Head
75 The Right Whale's Head
76 The Battering Ram
77 The great Heidelburgh Tun
78 Cistern and Buckets
79 The Prairie
8o The Nut
8I The Pequod meets the Virgin
82 The Honor and glory of Whaling
83 Jonah Historically Regarded
84 Pitch poling
85 The Fountain
86 The Tail
87 The Grand Armada
88 Schools & Schoolmasters
89 Fast Fish and Loose Fish
90 Heads or Tails
91 The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
92 Ambergris
93 The Castaway
94 A Squeeze of the Hand
95 The Cassock
96 The Try-Works
97 The Lamp
98 Stowing Down & Clearing Up
99 The Doubloon
IOO The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
IOI The Decanter
I02 A Bower in the Arsacides
I03 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
I04 The Fossil Whale
I05 Does the Whale Diminish?
I06 Ahab's Leg
I07 The Carpenter
I08 The Deck · Ahab and the Carpenter
109 The Cabin · Ahab and Starbuck
IIO Queequeg in his Coffin
III The Pacific
II2 The Blacksmith
Il3 The Forge
114 The Gilder
II5 The Pequod meets the Bachelor
II6 The Dying Whale
II7 The Whale-Watch
II8 The Quadrant
II9 The Candles
I20 The Deck
121 Midnight, on the Forecastle
I22 Midnight, Aloft
I23 The Musket
I24 The Needle
I25 The Log and Line
I26 The Life, Buoy
127 Ahab and the Carpenter
I28 The Pequod meets the Rachel
129 The Cabin· Ahab and Pip
130 The Hat
I31 The Pequod meets the Delight
I32 The Symphony
I33 The Chase · First Day
I34 The Chase · Second Day
I35 The Chase · Third Day
EPILOGUE

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    A Hardback by Herman Melville, Barry Moser

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 10/11/1981
      ISBN13: 9780520043541, 978-0520043541
      ISBN10: 0520043545

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Includes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser.

      Trade Review
      "Andrew Hoyem’s Arion Press edition of Moby Dick, published in San Francisco in 1979, in an edition of 265 total copies, is considered one of the two or three greatest American fine press books ever. . . .a trade edition published by University of California Press retains the look of the type and the illustrations, done in woodcut by Barry Moser." * The New Antiquarian *
      "A great American edition with features more diverse than those in any previous edition of Melville's classic." -- Stuart C. Sherman, * Fine Print *

      Table of Contents
      ETYMOLOGY
      EXTRACTS

      CHAPTER I Loomings
      2 The Carpet Bag
      3 The Spouter-Inn
      4 The Counterpane
      5 Breakfast
      6 The Street
      7 The Chapel
      8 The Pulpit
      9 The Sermon
      1O A Bosom Friend
      II Nightgown
      I2 Biographical
      I3 Wheelbarrow
      I4 Nantucket
      IS Chowder
      I6 The Ship
      I7 The Ramadan
      I8 His Mark
      I9 The Prophet
      20 All Astir
      2I Going Aboard
      22 Merry Christmas
      23 The Lee Shore
      24 The Advocate
      25 Postscript
      26 Knights and Squires
      27 Knights and Squires
      28 Ahab
      29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
      30 The Pipe
      3I Queen Mab
      32 Cetology
      33 The Specksynder
      34 The Cabin Table
      35 The Mast-Head
      36 The Quarter-Deck · Ahab and all
      37 Sunset
      38 Dusk
      39 First Night-Watch
      40 Forecastle-Midnight
      41 Moby Dick
      42 The Whiteness of the Whale
      43 Hark!
      44 The Chart
      45 The Affidavit
      46 Surmises
      47 The Mat-Maker
      48 The First Lowering
      49 The Hyena
      50 Ahab's Boat and Crew-Fedallah
      51 The Spirit-Spout
      52 The Pequod meets the Albatross
      53 The Gam
      54 The Town Ho's Story
      55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales
      56 Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
      57 Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.
      58 Brit
      59 Squid
      6o The Line
      61 Stubb kills a Whale
      62 The Dart
      63 The Crotch
      64 Stubb's Supper
      65 The Whale as a Dish
      66 The Shark Massacre
      67 Cutting In
      68 The Blanket
      69 The Funeral
      70 The Sphynx
      71 The Pequod meets the Jeroboam ·Her Story
      72 The Monkey-rope
      73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale
      74 The Sperm Whale's Head
      75 The Right Whale's Head
      76 The Battering Ram
      77 The great Heidelburgh Tun
      78 Cistern and Buckets
      79 The Prairie
      8o The Nut
      8I The Pequod meets the Virgin
      82 The Honor and glory of Whaling
      83 Jonah Historically Regarded
      84 Pitch poling
      85 The Fountain
      86 The Tail
      87 The Grand Armada
      88 Schools & Schoolmasters
      89 Fast Fish and Loose Fish
      90 Heads or Tails
      91 The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
      92 Ambergris
      93 The Castaway
      94 A Squeeze of the Hand
      95 The Cassock
      96 The Try-Works
      97 The Lamp
      98 Stowing Down & Clearing Up
      99 The Doubloon
      IOO The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
      IOI The Decanter
      I02 A Bower in the Arsacides
      I03 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
      I04 The Fossil Whale
      I05 Does the Whale Diminish?
      I06 Ahab's Leg
      I07 The Carpenter
      I08 The Deck · Ahab and the Carpenter
      109 The Cabin · Ahab and Starbuck
      IIO Queequeg in his Coffin
      III The Pacific
      II2 The Blacksmith
      Il3 The Forge
      114 The Gilder
      II5 The Pequod meets the Bachelor
      II6 The Dying Whale
      II7 The Whale-Watch
      II8 The Quadrant
      II9 The Candles
      I20 The Deck
      121 Midnight, on the Forecastle
      I22 Midnight, Aloft
      I23 The Musket
      I24 The Needle
      I25 The Log and Line
      I26 The Life, Buoy
      127 Ahab and the Carpenter
      I28 The Pequod meets the Rachel
      129 The Cabin· Ahab and Pip
      130 The Hat
      I31 The Pequod meets the Delight
      I32 The Symphony
      I33 The Chase · First Day
      I34 The Chase · Second Day
      I35 The Chase · Third Day
      EPILOGUE

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