Moby-Dick or The Whale
Melville, Herman. Albert and Charles Boni, 1931. Softbound. The Boni brothers cofounded a Greenwich Village bookstore as teenagers and would go on to innovate several book club and paperback publishing imprints, including Little Leather Library, Modern Library, and the Depression-era Bonibooks, which reprinted classics like this Howard Simon–illustrated beauty. Simon, who studied under Japanese printmakers, was part of an early wave of artists who incorporated asymmetry, two-dimensionality, and other mokuhanga-influenced characteristics into their work in a way that would transform modern art and design.
Spine is tight, but has a slight slump and some creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. Some sunning to the spine and parts of the covers, as well as some lightly bumped corners and areas of creasing. 507 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
