This book is the holy grail of modern printings of Moby Dick... You're lucky to find a copy used in Fine or near Fine for under $3000 these days..

I finally purchased this myself after becoming as obsessed with this version as captain Ahab was with the 🐳 - it is by far my most beautiful book I own

If one is not able to acquire this certainly wonderful Folio Society edition (because of price or availability), I would recommend the Arion Press trade edition (either hardback or softcover), which is very nice indeed, with excellent illustrations.

A fine edition, thanks for sharing.

Beautiful !! I love seeing your collection. And really great shots. Keep on the good work my good sir...for our viewing pleasure.

This book is truly unobtainium lol. Exorbitant prices accompanied.

I bought this new, and im actually annoyed its gone up in value so much. i wanted a book i could read, not a museum piece. what am i supposed to do with this now. read it with gloves in a clean room?

There is one mystery about this text which may seem like a nitpick, but it keeps nagging me. Chapter 33 is often spelled “The Specksynder”, but some editions have it spelled “The Specksnyder”. As a Dutchman myself, I know that the last spelling is the historically correct one. (In Dutch it is spelled “speksnijder”.) My question would be if Herman Melville originally wrote “specksnyder”, or if he spelled it “specksynder”.