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Call Me Ishmael
by Olson, Charles
- Used
- Condition
- Cloth spine stamped in gilt, paper-covered boards. Owner signature of William Eastlake on front flyleaf. Spine is very slightly
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1958. 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). First Grove edition, no 11 of a "specially bound, limited edition," of 100 numbered copies. [x], 119 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 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).
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 352370
- Title
- Call Me Ishmael
- Author
- Olson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- [x], 119 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth spine stamped in gilt, paper-covered boards. Owner signature of William Eastlake on front flyleaf. Spine is very slightly
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Grove edition, no 11 of a "specially bound, limited editio
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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