John Schulman of Caliban Book Shop in The New Antiquarian on Moby Dick, from inspiration to first editions, illustrations, and more:
[bctt tweet=”John Schulman of Caliban Book Shop on Moby Dick, from inspiration to first editions, illustrations, and more…”]“Copies of the London first printing in original cloth without any rebinding or restoration are nearly impossible to acquire. Scrolling through auction records, there is the occasional entry for the set rebound or restored, but one has to go all the way back to 1993 to encounter one in original cloth without major restoration; it sold, with buyer’s premium, for just over $75,000. But I did remember getting a catalog nearly twenty-five years ago from Biblioctopus that featured a stunning set of The Whale – and so I emailed Mark Hime and asked him whether he had any pictures on file of the set…”
In honor of Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair which starts today, I wrote about Moby Dick for the ABAA: https://t.co/mmuzZ02zAJ
— Caliban Bookshop (@CalibanBooks) November 13, 2015