Browsing Tag Moby-Dick

Two volumes from Herman Melville's personal library come to auction at Swann Galleries October 10.

We celebrate the author, now recognized as one of the cornerstones of American literature, on what would have been his 200th birthday.

Topping our June 19, 2014 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature was a first American edition of Herman Melville’s seminal Moby-Dick, which brought $40,000 against a…

Thanks to John D. Larson, Swann’s 19th & 20th Century Literature Specialist, for contributing this post: It’s a fine thing (call it geographic serendipity) to share a…