Moby Dick, ili Bijeli Kit
Zagreb, [Croatia]: Kultura, 1954. Very Good / Very Good -. Item #49861
Zagreb, [Croatia]: Kultura, 1954. First Croatian Edition. Octavo; beige cloth lettered in white over yellow paper-covered boards stamped in brown; 561, [1]pp. Text in Croatian. Mild rubbing and a few smudges to boards; pages toned; dust jacket soiled, spotted, and chipped with a few tears; a Very Good copy in a Good to Very Good dust jacket.
First Croatian Edition of Melville's masterpiece, translated by the notable Croatian poet and journalist, respectively, and featuring a wonderful early-career jacket design by Murdic, who would go on to be recognized as one of the leading abstract painters in the Socialist world. We find only one copy in OCLC, held at the Newberry.
Leland Phelps, "Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation: A Research Guide." Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1983. Number 38.6.
Price: $400.00