1931 Rare Book in Dust Jacket - Moby Dick Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer Rare book What he called his prophetic

What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language"

The front cover features a donkey in harness

attractive and very nice First English edition of Thomas Mann Magic Mountain

The Illustrator: Otto Speckter (* November 9

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1931 Rare Book in Dust Jacket - Moby Dick Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer Rare book What he called his propheticAuthor: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer. Title: Moby Dick; or, The White Whale. Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia & Toronto, The John C. Winston Company, 1931. First thus. Language: Text in English. Size: 9 x 6 inches. Pages: xvii 414 pages. Binding: Very good original publishers black cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated front panel mounted to upper board (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed as shown) in a