Call Me Ishmael.
New York: Grove Press, Inc, [1958].
Price: $650.00
About the item
First Grove edition, no 11 of a "specially bound, limited edition," of 100 numbered copies. [x], 119 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth spine stamped in gilt, paper-covered boards. Owner signature of William Eastlake on front flyleaf. Spine is very slightly faded, some toning to extremities of covers. Very good copy in publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket (acetate is rubbed, else bright).
Item #352370
Charles Olson’s substantial essay on Melville’s Moby Dick (originally published in 1947), here with the ownership signature of novelist, war correspondent, and university lecturer William Eastlake (1917-1997).
