MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby Dick. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Illustrated by Kent. 3 volumes, 4to, original silver-decorated black cloth, top edge stained black, others uncut, spines very slightly faded with a little rubbing at ends; some margins chipped from roughly being opened; aluminum slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 sets, PRESENTATION COPY, with a typed letter signed from Kent to James N. Rosenberg (tipped on front pastedown in the first volume) sending a presentation inscription for his copy [mounted on front free endpaper]. 15 November 1930. One page, 4to, on personal letterhead. The presentation sheet reads: "This is one of the most splendid and beautiful books ever produced in the world - and rediculously unworthy of its text. Thus do I inscribe to Jimmy his Moby Dick. Rockwell - 1930." Above which Kent has drawn a standing nude male figure with arms raised and holding a flower and a locomotive in each hand respectively, below an apparition of Melville. Kent has additionally inscribed beside the drawing: "Notice that I have made Melville look like a Jewish Rabbi!" (3)

MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby Dick. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Illustrated by Kent. 3 volumes, 4to, original silver-decorated black cloth, top edge stained black, others uncut, spines very slightly faded with a little rubbing at ends; some margins chipped from roughly being opened; aluminum slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 sets, PRESENTATION COPY, with a typed letter signed from Kent to James N. Rosenberg (tipped on front pastedown in the first volume) sending a presentation inscription for his copy [mounted on front free endpaper]. 15 November 1930. One page, 4to, on personal letterhead. The presentation sheet reads: "This is one of the most splendid and beautiful books ever produced in the world - and rediculously unworthy of its text. Thus do I inscribe to Jimmy his Moby Dick. Rockwell - 1930." Above which Kent has drawn a standing nude male figure with arms raised and holding a flower and a locomotive in each hand respectively, below an apparition of Melville. Kent has additionally inscribed beside the drawing: "Notice that I have made Melville look like a Jewish Rabbi!" (3)

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MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby Dick. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Illustrated by Kent. 3 volumes, 4to, original silver-decorated black cloth, top edge stained black, others uncut, spines very slightly faded with a little rubbing at ends; some margins chipped from roughly being opened; aluminum slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 sets, PRESENTATION COPY, with a typed letter signed from Kent to James N. Rosenberg (tipped on front pastedown in the first volume) sending a presentation inscription for his copy [mounted on front free endpaper]. 15 November 1930. One page, 4to, on personal letterhead. The presentation sheet reads: "This is one of the most splendid and beautiful books ever produced in the world - and rediculously unworthy of its text. Thus do I inscribe to Jimmy his Moby Dick. Rockwell - 1930." Above which Kent has drawn a standing nude male figure with arms raised and holding a flower and a locomotive in each hand respectively, below an apparition of Melville. Kent has additionally inscribed beside the drawing: "Notice that I have made Melville look like a Jewish Rabbi!" (3)