Herman Melville: Selected Poems by Melville, Herman - 1995

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Moser, Barry. Octavo. xxiv, 131pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved portrait of Melville by Barry Moser. One of 26 lettered copies, each signed by the artist. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler. The edition was designed to mirror the Arion Press' sixth publication, Moby-Dick, produced in 1979. It uses the same typeface, Goudy Modern, the same paper with watermarks of the mill, the press, and the sperm whale, and the artistic contributions of the same artist, Moser. Bound in blue morocco exposed at the upper and lower edges, else covered in blue cloth, and housed in matching slipcase. Slight toning to upper and lower edges of endpapers, else fine. Prospectus laid in.