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THE ARION PRESS -- Herman MELVILLE. Moby-Dick; or The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. 2° (375 x 250mm). Printed in black and blue on Barcham-Green hand-made paper. 100 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in silver, edges rough-trimmed (lacking slip-case). ONE OF 265 COPIES of one of the finest 20th-century American private press books.
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THE ARION PRESS -- Herman MELVILLE. Moby-Dick; or The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. 2° (375 x 250mm). Printed in black and blue on Barcham-Green hand-made paper. 100 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in silver, edges rough-trimmed (lacking slip-case). ONE OF 265 COPIES of one of the finest 20th-century American private press books.

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THE ARION PRESS -- Herman MELVILLE. Moby-Dick; or The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. 2° (375 x 250mm). Printed in black and blue on Barcham-Green hand-made paper. 100 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in silver, edges rough-trimmed (lacking slip-case). ONE OF 265 COPIES of one of the finest 20th-century American private press books.
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