MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE BY HERMAN MELVILLE 1946 BAYNTUN FINE BINDING

[MELVILLE, HERMAN]. Moby Dick or the Whale. London: The Cresset Press, 1946.

NEW EDITION; signed by the editor, leather bound, hardcover, octavo (20 x 12.5 x 3 cm), pp. xxx, 577. English text, with an introduction by Montgomery Belgion and signed by him in blue ink. Finely bound in three quarters crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun (their ink pallet to front endpaper), cloth sides, top edge gilt, half-title. Condition: NEAR FINE. The lightest touch of fading to the spine, else a tight and clean copy, without previous ownership markings.