This RARE limited leather edition from The Franklin Mint is in EXCELLENT+ condition with no markings inside or out and no attached bookplates. There are two leather variants of this awesome edition, one blue and one black. This is also the rarer black leather version of this edition. And it looks, feels, and smells like a new book. The only imperfection to be found is VERY minor(near non-existent) typical aging exclusively to the top edge of the text block gilt and fading to the edges of the moiré end leaves, as shown. Not only is this edition hard to find, but it's also in really great shape.

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Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that crippled him on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous.