Friday Giveaway: Moby Dick (contest closed)





After last week's big giveaway, I thought I would keep it simple today. I'm giving away just one book, but it's a beauty - a 1977 Easton Press leatherbound collector's edition of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." From the description:

This gift-quality decorator edition of Melville's classic is bound in dark blue leather boards, with allover gilt decoration and gilt lettering. The cover has a stylized gilt illustration of a whale. All page edges are gilt; a ribbon bookmark is bound into the book. Endpapers are watered silk. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Boardman Robinson appear throughout. Introduction by Clifford Fadiman. 

Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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36 comments:

  1. Beautiful book -- thanks for the giveaway.

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  2. Oh, it's beautiful! I would certainly love to have it!!

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  3. I love this. I'm a big fan of the Rockwell Kent edition, with his gorgeous graphic prints, but those paintings look stunning.

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  4. Beautiful book. Would be great to hold in my hand.

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  5. The book is beautiful. Good luck to us all.

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  6. I don't often enter but I can't resist on this one.

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  7. What a beautiful edition of a wonderful classic.

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  8. That is without a doubt the loveliest copy of that (literarily very lovely) book which I have ever seen--thanks very much for offering it!

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  9. What a beautiful edition!

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  10. Another fabulous Friday offering !

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  11. I’ll give it a whirl. Thanks, meanwhile, for shipping the per diem Coleridge volume so quickly, and packaging it so well.

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  12. In today's NY Times, Joe Queenan said he's been reading M Dick for 20 years, and is up to page 100. I'm thinking I could beat that.

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  13. A favorite in more ways than one. PLEASE!

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  14. I have been wanting to buy the book for some time now. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  15. Looks great! Can't wait to see who wins!

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  16. What a lovely book! I would love to win. :)

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  17. People say I'm strange because I actually love the book. In fact I just ordered a Moby Dick case for my new phone. :-) A copy like this one would be wonderful.

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  18. Beautiful! I'd love to add this to my bookshelves!

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  19. Any one line could be etched in stone.

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