Author: MELVILLE, HERMAN
Title: Billy Budd, Sailor -and- the Piazza Tales (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Full-Leather. A deluxe leatherbound edition offering two previously published works by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in this single volume. Includes his "Billy Budd, Sailor," which was first published posthumously in 1924. Also included is his "The Piazza Tales" which is a collection of six short novels: "The Piazza," "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Encantadas" and "The Bell-Tower." With black & white illustrations by J. William Myers and a drawn portrait of Melville by Alan E. Cober. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full blue bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Blue silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about Near Fine copy with mild sunning to edges of moire endpapers, else clean, tightly-bound and bright.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (12), 351 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Title: Billy Budd, Sailor -and- the Piazza Tales (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Full-Leather. A deluxe leatherbound edition offering two previously published works by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in this single volume. Includes his "Billy Budd, Sailor," which was first published posthumously in 1924. Also included is his "The Piazza Tales" which is a collection of six short novels: "The Piazza," "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Encantadas" and "The Bell-Tower." With black & white illustrations by J. William Myers and a drawn portrait of Melville by Alan E. Cober. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full blue bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Blue silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about Near Fine copy with mild sunning to edges of moire endpapers, else clean, tightly-bound and bright.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (12), 351 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86906
- Book number: 86906