Kent, Rockwell, illustrator. MOBY DICK by Herman Melville. Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1930. The Artist and the Book, 140.
Edition of 1000 copies. First edition thus. Three volumes, quarto, 279, 284, and 282pp. 280 illustrations by Kent after his ink and wash drawings, except that the title pages of each volume are prints made from copper-plate engravings by Kent (Burne-Jones 58-60).
Housed in the original aluminum slipcase. Near Fine throughout, with some light scuffs from use to the slipcase and the volumes.and with the inevitable offsetting from the illustrations, and lacking, as with most sets, the original acetate wrappers.Volumes 2 and 3 unopened, that is, with the pages uncut.
Jo
Mielzner's copy, signed by him on the front endpaper of volume I.. He
was a stage designer for Broadway plays and musicals, and also worked in
Hollywood. He won both a Tony and an Oscar.
