June 23, 201419th & 20th Century Literature

Top Lots: Melville’s Whale, Signed Flannery O’Connor Firsts, Rex Stout Titles

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 pre-sale estimate of $18,000…