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This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (Author)
Other Authors: Moser, Barry (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1981]
Edition:California edition.
Subjects:
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Whaling ships > Fiction.
Ship captains > Fiction.
Mentally ill > Fiction.
Whaling > Fiction.
Whales > Fiction.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Mentally ill.
Ship captains.
Whales.
Whaling.
Whaling ships.
Sea stories.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Adventure fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Loomings
  • The Carpet Bag
  • The Spouter-Inn
  • The Counterpane
  • Breakfast
  • The Street
  • The Chapel
  • The Pulpit
  • The Sermon
  • A Bosom Friend
  • Nightgown
  • Biographical
  • Wheelbarrow
  • Nantucket
  • Chowder
  • The Ship
  • The Ramadan
  • His Mark
  • The Prophet
  • All Astir
  • Going Aboard
  • Merry Christmas
  • The Lee Shore
  • The Advocate
  • Knights and Squires
  • Knights and Squires
  • Ahab
  • Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
  • The Pipe
  • Queen Mab
  • Cetology
  • The Specksynder
  • The Cabin Table
  • The Mast-Head
  • The Quarter-Deck
  • Ahab and all
  • Sunset
  • Dusk
  • First Night-Watch
  • Forecastle
  • Midnight
  • Moby Dick
  • The Whiteness of the Whale
  • Hark!
  • The Chart
  • The Affidavit
  • Surmises
  • The Mat-Maker
  • The First Lowering
  • The Hyena
  • Ahab's Boat and Crew
  • Fedallah
  • The Spirit-Spout
  • The Pequod meets the Albatross
  • The Gam
  • The Town Ho's Story
  • Monstrous Pictures of Whales
  • Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
  • Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, andc.
  • Brit
  • Squid
  • The Line
  • Stubb kills a Whale
  • The Dart
  • The Crotch
  • Stubb's Supper
  • The Whale as a Dish
  • The Shark Massacre
  • Cutting In
  • The Blanket
  • The Funeral
  • The Sphynx
  • The Pequod meets the Jeroboam
  • Her Story
  • The Monkey-rope
  • Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale
  • The Sperm Whale's Head
  • The Right Whale's Head
  • The Battering-Ram
  • The Great Heidelburgh Tun
  • Cistern and Buckets
  • The Prairie
  • The Nut.
  • The Pequod meets the Virgin
  • The Honor and Glory of Whaling
  • Jonah Historically Regarded
  • Pitchpoling
  • The Fountain
  • The Tail
  • The Grand Armada
  • Schools and Schoolmasters
  • Fast Fish and Loose Fish
  • Heads or Tails
  • The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
  • Ambergris
  • The Castaway
  • A Squeeze of the Hand
  • The Cassock
  • The Try-Works
  • The Lamp
  • Stowing Down and Clearing Up
  • The Doubloon
  • The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
  • The Decanter
  • A Bower in the Arsacides
  • Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
  • The Fossil Whale
  • Does the Whale Diminish?
  • Ahab's Leg
  • The Carpenter
  • The Deck
  • Ahab and the Carpenter
  • The Cabin
  • Ahab and Starbuck
  • Queequeg in his Coffin
  • The Pacific
  • The Blacksmith
  • The Forge
  • The Gilder
  • The Pequod meets the Bachelor
  • The Dying Whale
  • The Whale-Watch
  • The Quadrant
  • The Candles
  • The Deck
  • Midnight, on the Forecastle
  • Midnight, Aloft
  • The Musket
  • The Needle
  • The Log and Line
  • The Life-Buoy
  • Ahab and the Carpenter
  • The Pequod meets the Rachel
  • The Cabin
  • Ahab and Pip
  • The Hat
  • The Pequod meets the Delight
  • The Symphony
  • The Chase
  • First Day
  • The Chase
  • Second Day
  • The Chase
  • Third Day.