Physical description

No dust cover. Front cover is light green. At the top of the cover is an illustration of three ships in black. Under the top illustration is the title of the book in black. In the center is an illustration of a boy and a girl sitting opposite each other, both reading books. At the foot of the cover is an illustration of an open book with a grape vine flowing across it. Underneath are the words 'Herbert Strang's Library in black. The title, author and publisher are in black on the spine.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Christ Church/ Marysville/ PRESENTED/ TO/ Bruce Thompson/ S. Taylor/ 1952
Herbert Strang's/ Library/ MOBY DICK/ By/ HERMAN/ MELVILLE/ GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE/ OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS/ LEIGHTON HOUSE, MELBOURNE
Registered at the General Post Office, Melbourne, for tansmission/ by post as a book./ First Australian Edition, 1945/ Reprinted, 1949/ Wholly set up and printed in Australia/ by Brown, Prior, Anderson Pty. Ltd.,/ 430 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, C.I.

Summary

Moby Dick is the story of a man, a ship and a whale. It is a classic novel that was originally written in 1851.