MELVILLE. HERMAN [book plate of Bruce Godward]
Moby Dick or the Whale.
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. London etc: Cassell & Co 1930, 1st UK edition. xxxi, 822p, illustrations throughout by Rockwell Kent. 185mm bound in black cloth with gilt spine title. Light rubbing at hinges and small nicks spine ends. With the bookplate of Bruce Godward [by Rita Angus], he was the son of NZ inventor E.R. Godward, world expert on the internal combustion engine. On the back fly of the book Bruce Godward has copied an anecdote from the Christchurch Star-Sun [11.8.1942] "A Whale that Wandered - an early instance of international courtesy between USA and New Zealand ...'