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A note on OCLC
As is now the norm, OCLC counts are tentative, at best, as we recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results. Searches are now further complicated by the vast numbers of digital, microfilm, and even print-on-demand copies, which have polluted the database considerably, making it difficult, without numerous phone calls or emails, to determine the actual number of tangible copies. Hence, even though the counts herein have been recently checked, most all should be taken as a measure of approximation.
1. [Typee, in French.] Les cannibales. Illustrations de P. Rousseau. Adaptation [and translation by] Eliezer Fournier. [Tours]: Maison Mame, [1955].
$85
8vo, pp. [4], 9-246, [2]; 6 color plates (1 double-page), other illustrations throughout the text (some full-page); Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text a little toned, else a fine copy in original limp pictorial boards, and a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 22 in the publisher's Succes de la Juenesse series.
First edition of this French adaptation for a juvenile audience of Typee, published in the same format a year later in 1956. Another edition of the same translation and illustrator was published in 1955 but with 189 pages.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:6.
2. [Typee, in German.] Taipi. Illustrierte Klassiker. Die spannendsten Geschichten der Weltliteratur [cover title]. Hamburg: Bildschriftenverlag, [1962].
$50
9½" x 6¾", pp. 45, [3]; printed in comic-book form and in color throughout; includes a full-page biography of Melville; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; very good, clean, and sound.
The comic book is published under agreements with Classics International in New York. Issued as no. 110 in the publisher's Illustrierte Klassiker series.
Translation and comic adaptation of Typee, translated into German.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:9. Three in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
3. [Typee, in German.] Taipi: abenteuer in der Südsee. [Übertragung und Nachwort von Ilse Hecht]. [Leipzig]: Hoffmann und Campe, 1967.
$65
8vo, pp. 416; portrait frontispiece and 11 plates; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original gray cloth, and a fine dust jacket.
This is the second Hecht edition of Typee, the first being in 1953.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:10.
4. [Typee, in German.] Taipi: Abenteuer in der Südsee ... Mit Illustrationen von Klaus Ensikat. [Übersetzt von Ilse Hecht]. Zürich, Köln: Benziger, [1978].
$75
8vo, pp. 320, [8]; pictorial endpapers, frontispiece and illustrated title page, 34 full-page illustrated chapter headings on colored backgrounds, plus other illustrations in the text; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original taupe cloth stamped in black, and preserving a fine pictorial dust jacket.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:12.
5. [Typee, in Italian.] Taipi ... (sguardo alla vita Polinesiana). [Traduzione di Luigi Ballerini]. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, [1951].
$125
12mo, pp. [5], 8-280, [6]; front free endpaper excised, text a touch toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original cream paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, in a near fine dust jacket with just two small breaks at the extremities. A pencil on p. [5] notes that this was a gift to the Newberry by Harrison Hayford. Issued as no. CLXVII/CLXXVII in the publisher's Biblioteca Moderna Mondadori series.
First edition of this translation.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:7. Nine in OCLC, none in the U.S., although there is a copy at the Newberry.
6. [Typee, in Italian.] Taipi. [Traduzione di Luigi Ballerini]. Milano: Rizzoli - Editore, [1965].
$50
16mo, pp. 361, [7]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp, else near fine in original printed gray wrappers. Issued as no. 2267/2270 in the publisher's Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli series.
First edition of this translation.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:10. Four in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
7. [Typee, in Modern Greek.] Τυνη / Tynē / [Typee]. Athēna: M. Pechlivanidēs & Sia A.E., [1954].
$75
9¾" x 7¾", pp. 47, [1]; printed in comic-book form and in color throughout; includes a full-page biography of Melville; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; some wear and wrinkling, but still good, sound, and clean.
This comic book adaptation of Typee is published under agreements with Atlantic Publishing Corp. Issued as no. 85 in the publisher's Klassika eikonographēmena series.
Translation and comic adaptation of Typee, translated into Modern Greek. This is the first appearance of any Melville text in Greece.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 17:1. OCLC locates only the Newberry copy.
8. [Typee, in Norwegian.] Tai-pi: fire måneder blant innfødte på Marquesas-øyene. [Translated by Waldemar Brøgger]. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, [1941].
$100
12mo, pp. 255, [1]; frontispiece; spine faded, binding slightly skewed, but still a good copy in original green cloth. Issued in the publisher's Ugle-bøkene series.
The first edition of Typee in Norwegian.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 31:1. Newberry and Texas only in OCLC.
9. [Typee, in Portuguese.] Mares do Sul. Tradução especial para o "Clube do Livro" de José Maria Machado e Jacobo Penteado. Nota explicative de Paulo Arinos. Capa de Vicente de Gradoul. São Paulo: Clube do Livro, 1967.
$150
8vo, pp. 143, [1]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text toned, else a very good, sound copy in original pictorial wrappers. Issued in the publisher's A Travers l'Univers series.
An abridgement of Typee, the first in Portuguese.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 35:2. Two in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
10. [Typee, in Spanish.] Taipi: una narración de los mares del sur. [Traducción de J. Dóriga]. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe Argentina S.A., [1950].
$50
12mo, pp. [3]-228, [14] ads; original printed cream wrappers, dust jacket with slight wear at extremities; text a bit toned, else very good and sound. Issued as no. 953 in the publisher's Colección Austral series.
First edition of this Spanish translation of Typee, and second Argentine edition.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:6. Quite a few copies in OCLC but just the Newberry and Hawaii in the U.S.
11. [Omoo, in Czech.] Omú. [Translated by Zdeněk Kiršner & Jiřina Hauková]. Praha: Práce, 1958.
$150
8vo, pp. 236, [4]; 20 full-page illustrations by Václav Junek; original pictorial wrappers; some toning, small chip at the bottom of the spine; all else near fine. Issued as no. 122 in the publisher's Románové Novinky series.
Second edition of Omoo in Czech following another titled Tulak po ostrovech (Vagabond in the Islands) published in 1948.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 8:4. OCLC locates two copies, the Czech National Library plus a copy at the Newberry.
12. [Omoo, in French.] Omoo: récits des mers du sud. [With:] Le vagabond des îles. Traduit de l'Anglais par Olivier Carvin. [Bruxelles]: Éditions de la Sixaine, [1946].
$350
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [7], 10-244, [4]; 253, [3]; frontispieces by Marcel Clerbois; clean tear on p. 139-40 in volume II, texts toned, spine on the second volume with inoffensive elongated waterstain, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplates and discreet release stamps; all else good and sound or better in original printed wrappers.
First trade edition in French of Omoo. The first volume contains chapters 1-39; the second contains chapters 40-end. There was also a special printing of 23 copies on tinted vellum, including 3 copies marked from A to C intended for the publishers, and 20 numbered copies from I to XX intended for collaborators and friends of La Sixaine, plus an additional 300 numbered copies from 1 to 300.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:9 & 14:10. OCLC locates 8 copies, only Princeton and the Newberry in the U.S.
13. [Omoo, in Italian.] Omoo: aventure nei mari del sud. [Traduzione di Giovanni Monaco]. Roma: Migliaresi Editore, [1944].
$175
8vo, pp. [2], 5-321, [1]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplates and discreet release stamp; original gray wrappers printed in red and black; a few short breaks and creases at the edges, bottom of spine chipped, front free endpaper excised; all else good and sound.
First edition of Omoo in Italian.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:18.
14. [Mardi, in French.] Mardi ... Traduit de l'anglais par Charles Cestre. Avant-propos de Henri Parisot. [Paris]: Robert Marin, [1950].
$75
8vo, pp. [3]-509, [1]; original pictorial wrappers after Max Ernst; the text a bit toned, else very good and sound.
First edition of Mardi in French; the edition consisted of 50 numbered copies printed on Rives BFK, and this trade issue.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:15. OCLC locates many copies in Europe, but only Yale, Northwestern, Amherst, Princeton, and the Newberry in the U.S.
15. [Mardi, in Swedish.] Mardi. Översättning av Aida Törnell. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1949.
$125
8vo, pp. 275, [1]; largely unopened; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; a few short breaks at the edges, else a very good, sound copy in original pictorial wrappers.
First edition of Mardi in Swedish. On the verso of the title page: "Dikterna översatta av Irma Nordvang"
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 42:6. Six in OCLC, only Yale, Texas, and the Newberry in the U.S.
16. [Redburn, in French.] Redburn ou sa première croisière. Traduit de l'anglais par Armel Guerne. Préface de Pierre Mac Orlan. [Paris]: Robert Marin, [1951].
$75
8vo, pp. [3]-339, [1]; original pictorial wrappers after Max Ernst; the text a bit toned, extremities sunned, else very good and sound.
First edition of Redburn in French; the edition consisted of 50 numbered copies printed on Rives BFK, and this trade issue.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation,14:18. OCLC locates many copies in Europe, but only NYU, Yale and the Newberry in the U.S.
17. [Redburn, in German.] Redburn: Seine erst Seereise. [Übertragen von Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus mit einem Nachwort von Karl-Heinz Wirzberger]. Leipzig: In der Dieterich'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1965].
$85
12mo, pp. 491, [5]; text rather toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original gray cloth stamped in blue and gilt, preserving a near fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 284 in the publisher's Sammlung Dieterich series.
First edition of this translation.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:25.
18. [Redburn, in Swedish.] Redburn. [Till svenska av E. R. Gummerus]. Stockholm: Fahlcrantz & Gumælius, [1950].
$125
8vo, pp. 294; largely unopened; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original pictorial wrappers; very good, clean and sound.
First edition of Redburn in Swedish.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 42:7. Two copies in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
19. [White Jacket, in French.] White Jacket (Blouson-Blanc) ou la vie à bord d'un navire de guerre. Traduit de l'anglais par Charles Cestre et Armel Guerne. [Paris]: Robert Marin, [1951].
$450
Edition limited to 50 copies on 'velin offset superieur' (this, no. 44); 8vo, pp. 341, [1]; largely unopened; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; near fine in original pictorial wrappers.
First edition of the first French translation of White Jacket, and the best issue on superior paper.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:20.
20. [White Jacket, in French.] Veste blanche ... Adaptation d'Éliézer Fournier ... Illustrations et planches hors-text de Gilles Valdès . Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1957.
$85
8vo, pp. [3]-175, [1]; illustrations throughout; a fine copy in original white cloth stamped in gray, preserving a dust jacket showing a few wrinkles and several short tears (no loss).
A French adaptation of Melville's White Jacket for a juvenile audience.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:21. Seven in OCLC, only the Newberry and Indiana in the U.S.
21. [White Jacket, in German.] Weissjacke. Deutsch von Walter Weber. [Zurich]: Manesse Verlag. Conzett & Huber, n.d., [ca. 1967].
$45
16mo (approx. 6" x 4"), pp. 734; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, and in a very good pictorial dust jacket with 2 or 3 small chips. Issued in the publisher's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur series.
This translation first published in 1948.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:27.
22. [White Jacket, in German.] Weissjacke. Deutsch von Walter Weber. Zurich: Manesse Verlag - Conzett & Huber, [ca. 1980?].
$40
16mo, pp. 734; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original blue leather, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g., yellow ribbon bookmark; fine copy.
This edition first printed in 1948 but this is clearly a later reprint. The translation is the first into German of White Jacket.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:27.
23. [White Jacket, in German.] Weissjacke oder die Welt auf einem Kriegsschiff. [Aus dem Amerikanischen ubertragen von Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus. Nachwort von Utz Riese]. Leipzig: Dieterich'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1981].
$35
Third edition, 8vo, pp. 582, [6]; text somewhat toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, preserving a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 160 in the publisher's Sammlung Dieterich series.
This edition first printed in 1954.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:28.
24. [Moby Dick - Comic Adaptations.] Moby Dick. Kobenhavn, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Reykjavik, & Ostertalje: various publishers under agreement with Classics International in New York, [1956].
$250
Five comic books, each approx. 9¾" x 6¾", each with pp. [48], and each bearing the same illustrations, printed in comic-book form and in color throughout; includes a full-page biography of Melville; the Dutch version with small loss at the fore-edge touching neither the letterpress or illustration; all else generally very good, clean, and sound. Issued as no. 17 in the publishers' Illustrated Classics series.
Translation and comic adaptation of Moby Dick, translated into Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, and Swedish.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 9:6; 10:9; 16:53; 22:1; 42:18.
25. [Moby Dick, in Afrikans.] Moby Dick. [Translated and adapted by Paul Smit]. Pretoria: J. L. Van Schaik, BPK., 1966.
$250
Second edition of Moby Dick in Afrikaans; 12mo, pp. 167, [1]; fine copy in original gray cloth stamped in blue, preserving a fine pictorial dust jacket. Issued as no. 24 in the publisher's Libri-Reeks series.
The first Smit edition in Afrikaans was published in 1958.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 1.1. Two in OCLC: University of Pretoria and the Newberry Library.
26. [Moby Dick, in Arabic.] [Moby Dick in Arabic =] موبي ديك / Mawbī Dīk. Translated by Iḥsān ʻAbbās. Bayrūt: Dār al-Kātib al-ʻArabī, 1970.
$225
Thick 8vo, pp. [6], 910, [2]; original pictorial wrappers; lightly rubbed and worn, but generally a very good, sound, and clean copy.
Later printing of the first Arabic edition of Moby Dick; this is the full text of Moby Dick, not an adaptation or abridgement, and was first printed in 1965.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 3:1. LC, Newberry, Duke, and Dartmouth in OCLC.
27. [Moby Dick, in Chinese.] 白鯨 / Bai jing / [Moby Dick. Abridged and translated by Chin Siu Chu]. Taipei: Wu zhou, 1961.
$150
12mo, pp. [2], 223, [1]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original printed wrappers, worn, torn, and chipped; a fair, but complete copy.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 7:4. Newberry only in OCLC.
28. [Moby Dick, in Chinese.] Moby Dick = Bai jing ji. [Translated and with an introduction by Chin-yung Yeh]. [Hong Kong: World Today Press, 1972].
$85
Seventh printing of this abridgement in Chinese, 8vo, pp. [12], 442; original pictorial wrappers; fine, sound, and clean.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 7:6. OCLC locates the Newberry copy only.
29. [Moby Dick, in Danish.] Moby Dick eller Hvalen ... Forord: Martin A. Hansen. Traesnit af Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen. Oversat af Mogens Boisen. [København]: Gyldendal, 1955.
$450
First Danish edition (3000 copies printed), 8vo, pp. [6], 9-587, [5]; largely unopened; woodcut illustrations in the text throughout, frontispiece portrait and a single plate at the back showing the crew list of the Acushnet; original pictorial white wrappers, tan pictorial dust jacket; small break at the top of the spine of the jacket and a small nick at the top of the upper panel, else near fine throughout.
The first complete edition of Moby Dick in Danish. The translator, Mogens Boisen, also translated Joyce's Ulysses into Danish.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 9:4.
30. [Moby Dick, in Danish.] Moby Dick. Pa Dansk ved Mogens Boisen. Udgivet med efterskrift af Martin A. Hansen. Kobenhavn: Gyldendal, [1966].
$100
Later printing of a translation first published in 1955; 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. 308, [6]; 284, [6]; original green leatherette and dust jackets; generally a fine set. issued as no. 27 and 28 in the publisher's Bibliotek Verdenslitteratur series.
Mogens Boisen's translation was the first complete translation of Moby Dick into Danish. The translation made by Peter Freuchen in 1942 was only an adaptation.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 9:8.
31. [Moby Dick, in Dutch.] Moby Dick. [Translated by Emy Giphart]. Amsterdam: L. J. Veen's Uitgeversmij N.V., [1961].
$75
12mo, pp. 488; original pictorial wrappers by C. A. M. Thole; text toned, small nick in the fore-edge of the upper wrapper; very good. Issued as nos. 60-61 in the publisher's Amstelboeken series.
First edition of this translation.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 10:11. OCLC locates two copies in The Netherlands plus a copy at the Newberry.
32. [Moby Dick, in Dutch.] Moby Dick of de witte walvis. [Translated by J. F. Werumeus Buning]. Amsterdam: N.V. Em. Querido's Uitgevers Maatschappu, 1954.
$100
8vo, pp. 530; text toned, original pictorial blue laminate boards; small crease at the top of the upper cover, text a bit toned, all else generally very good.
Second edition of the first translation into Dutch, first published in 1929.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 10:7.
33. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick ... Traduit de l'Anglais [and abridged] par Jacques Marcireau. Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, [1953].
$50
16mo (approx. 6" x 4¼"), pp. [5], 8-255, [1]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text toned, red stripe on bottom edge; else a very good, sound copy in original pictorial wrappers. Issued in the publisher's A Travers l'Univers series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:33. Only 3 in OCLC, Princeton and the Newberry in the U.S.
34. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. [Translated and abridged by Eliezer Fournier]. [Tours]: Mame, [1953].
$45
8vo, pp. 237, [3]; text in French; seven color plates, plus text illustrations, by M.-F. de Christen; plain green paper wrappers in blue pictorial dust jacket; jacket with light edgewear, pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page, text clean and sound, near fine.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:34.
35. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick ... Traduction de Marguerite Gay. Illustrations de Pierre Rousseau. Paris: Éditions G. P., 1954.
$100
8vo, pp. 185, [3]; numerous illustrations throughout, some full-page, some in color; original decorative cream cloth stamped in red and gilt, preserving the original pictorial dust jacket with shallow tears and losses at the extremities (no loss of text or illustration). Issued as no. 72 in the publisher's Bibliothèque rouge et or series.
Translated and abridged by Marguerite Gay.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:34
36. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. Texte francais de Jean Muray. Illustrations de Paul Durand. [Paris]: Hachette, [1954].
$150
8vo, pp. 188, [4]; text in French; 14 color plates (2 double page); Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else about fine in original gilt-stamped cream cloth and preserving the original pictorial dust jacket.
An abridgement.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14.36. Newberry only in OCLC.
37. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. [Translated by Marguerite Gay]. Paris: Editions G. P., [1954].
$85
8vo, pp. 185, [3]; text in French; illustrations by Pierre Rousseau; full yellow cloth, patterned on upper board in red and gilt; boards a little bowed, text clean and sound, pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page, very good in lightly soiled dust jacket. Issued as no. 72 in the publisher's Bibliotheque Rouge et Or series.
An abridgement.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:37. Four copies in OCLC, only Rochester and the Newberry in the U.S.
38. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. 48 timbres en couleurs. [Paris]: Cocorico, [1956].
$50
11" x 8½", pp. 48; 4 perforated color plates, each bearing 12 stamps showing scenes from Moby Dick, with glue on verso; the plates with light adherence in the gutter margin, but all stamps are visible; original pictorial wrappers; very good. Issued as no. 31 in the publisher's L'Encyclopédie par le Timbre series.
The adaptation is by Emma Gelders Sterne, and the illustrations by Charles Andres. The book is published under agreements with Simon & Schuster in New York and the Western Printing and Lithographing Co., Racine, Wisconsin.
See Tansell no. 96 and 101 for the American and British versions of the same. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:45. Newberry and Harvard only in OCLC.
39. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. [Translated and abridged by Jean Muray]. [Paris]: Hachette, [1957].
$50
8vo, pp. 188, [4]; text in French; black and white and color illustrations by Paul Durand; yellow cloth boards; light foxing to dust jacket and textblock edges, pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page, very good. Issued as no. 67 in the publisher's Ideal - Bibliotheque series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:38.
40. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick ou la baleine blanche. Traduit de l'américain et adapté par Jeanne Bourret; illustrations de Fred Funcken. 2e édition. Paris & Tournai [Belgium]: Casterman, 1957.
$125
8vo, pp. [4], 7-188, [2]; 12 illustrations in the text, some full-page; some toning of the text else a fine copy in publisher's green cloth, gilt stamped spine, and in a near fine dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Le Rameau Vert series and first published in 1955. Pressure stamp of Barbara Johnson in the bottom margin of the title page.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:44. Newberry only in OCLC.
41. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick ou la baleine blanche. Traduit de l'Americain et adapte pae Jeanne Bourret. Illustrations de Fred Funcken. Paris & Tournai: Casterman, [1957].
$75
Second edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 9-138, [2]; 2 color plates, other illustrations in the text (some full-page); Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text a little toned, else a fine copy in original cream cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, preserving a near fine dust jacket.
First published in the same format in 1956. Another edition of the same translation and illustrator was published in 1955 but with 189 pages. An adaptation in French for a juvenile audience.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:44.
42. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. Roman. Traduction de Marguerite Gay. Sixième édition. Paris: Librairie Gedalge, [1958].
$85
12mo, pp. [5], 8-230, [2]; illustrated by P. Grammont and R. Mathey with 7 color plates and 49 illustrations in the text, some full-page, some repeating; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in the bottom margin of the half-title page.
An abridgement, first published in 1942.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:46.
43. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick ... Traduit de l'anglais par Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith et Jean Giono. [Paris]: Galllimard, [1965].
$35
This translation first published in 1941 (see Phelps 14:28); 12mo, pp. [7], 10-703, [1]; original pictorial blue paper wrappers, edges stained red; text slightly toned, else fine. Issued in the publisher's Livre de Poche series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation 14:56.
44. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. Illustrations de Biffignandi et De Gaspari. Traduction et adaptation de E[lisabeth] Ciccione. [Paris]: Éditions des Deux coqs d'or, [1965].
$125
First edition, French issue (the book was also issued at Milan in Italian); folio, pp. [3]-125, [3]; illustrated in color throughout; near fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:59. BnF only in OCLC but there is also a copy at the Newberry.
45. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. Paris: Editions Mondiales, 1966.
$150
First edition, folio, pp. [62]; pictorial endpapers, 39 color illustrations by Neri; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; otherwise, a fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards.
An adaptation by Saulla Dello Strologo of the full novel, apparently for young readers. Issued as no. 11 in the publisher's Les Grands Classiques Illustrés series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:61.
46. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick: roman. Traduction de Marguerite Gay. Cinquieme edition. Paris: Librairie Gedalge, [1942, but ca. 1967?].
$125
8vo, pp. [4], iii, [1], 242, [2]; 54 illustrations in the text (some full-page), plus 4 color plates by R. Mathey; fine in original limp cream cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, preserving a fine dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Les Loisirs de la Jeunesse series.
An abridgement, apparently gifted by Howard Vincent to the Newberry Library in 1967, with a marking to that effect on p. [i].
See Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14.29 for the edition of 1942.
47. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. [Translated and abridged by Marguerite Gay]. [Paris]: Les Presses de la Cite, [1969].
$75
8vo, pp. [4], 9-251, [1]; text in French; illustrations by Michel Jouin; blue pictorial boards with printed mylar dust jacket; fine.
Gay's abridgement was first published in 1928, and with these Jouin illustrations in 1965.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:57.
48. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. Traduit de l'américain par Henriette Guex-Rolle. Chronologie et préface par Robert Silhol. [Paris & Genève]: Garnier-Flammarion, [1970].
$40
First edition of this translation, 12mo, pp. 575, [1]; original pictorial wrappers depicting Gregory Peck in the John Huston film version of the novel; near fine, sound, and clean.
The first translation into French was that of Marguerite Gay in 1928.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:68. OCLC locates the Newberry copy and one other in Italy.
49. [Moby Dick, in French.] Moby Dick. [Translated and abridged by Marguerite Gay]. [Paris]: Les Presses de la Cite, [1972].
$35
8vo, pp. [4], 9-251, [1]; text in French; illustrations by Michel Jouin; blue pictorial boards; fine.
Gay's abridgement was first published in 1928, and with these Jouin illustrations in 1965.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:57.
50. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick oder Der weisse Wal. [Translated and abridged by Wilhelm Strüver]. Berlin: Th. Knaur Nachfolger, [1927].
$950
8vo, pp. 301, [3]; title page printed in red and black; original blue cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; 2 small cracks at the top of the spine; front hinge starting; all else very good. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper dated 1930. Issued in the publisher's Romane der Welt series, edited by Thomas Mann and H. G. Scheffauer.
First edition of Moby Dick in a foreign language, albeit an abridgement. Other novels by Melville, notably Typee, Omoo, and Redburn had more favor with the public than the cursed Moby Dick.
"During Melville's lifetime, only his first novel, Typee, was translated into more than one foreign language. It was, in fact, apart from German translations of Omoo (1847) and Redburn (1850 and 1851), the only work by Melville that attracted the attention of publishers outside the English- speaking areas. In 1847 German and Dutch translations of Typee appeared. These were followed by editions in Danish (1852) and Swedish (1879) and finally a Polish translation (1882), the last to be published in the nineteenth century. Except for a severely abridged Swedish Typee in 1917, there was silence from 1882 until 1926, the year in which the first French translation of Melville's first novel [Typee] appeared" (Phelps, p. xiv). Moby Dick was not translated at all until this abridgement appeared in Berlin in 1927. The full novel was not translated into a foreign language until two years later when a Dutch and a Hungarian edition appeared.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:33. 15 copies in OCLC, 7 in the U.S.: Jefferson Community College, New York Public, NYU, Denver, Harvard, Princeton, and the Newberry.
51. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Deutsch von Fritz Güttinger. [Zurich]: Manesse Verlag, [1944].
$150
The second full translation into German of Moby Dick, 16mo (6" x 3¾"), pp. 918; original full green cloth, gilt title on spine; a fine copy in a dust jacket with shallow chips at the top of the spine. Issued in the publisher's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur series.
The first German translation by Wilhelm Struver was published in 1927, but this was an abridgement. The first complete edition in German was made by Margarete Mocklii von Seggern in 1942.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:35.
52. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. [Bearbbeitet und eingeleitet von Karl-Heinz Wirzberger]. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1955.
$30
8vo, pp. 804, [4]; text in English with a German introduction by Karl-Heinz Wirzberger; portrait frontispiece, map, and ship diagram; English to German glossary of shipping terms at the end; original cream paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth; boards toned and corners bumped, tidestain in upper gutter, good and sound in a stained dust jacket. Issued as no. 5 in the publisher's Englisch-amerikanische Bibliothek series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 11:15.
53. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Roman. [Translated by Theresia Mutzenbecher & Ernst Schnabel]. [Hamburg]: Rowohlt, [1956].
$75
12mo, pp. 416, [14]; original blue cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; some toning, else near fine throughout.
First edition of this translation into German of Moby Dick. Issued as no. 173-174 in the publisher's rororo Taschenbuch series. The first translation into German was that of Wilhelm Strüver in 1927.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:52.
54. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Hamburg: Verlag Internationale Klassiker, [1956].
$45
9¾" x 6¾", pp. [48]; printed in comic-book form and in color throughout; includes a full-page biography of Melville; very good, clean and sound. The comic book is published under agreements with Classics International in New York. Issued as no. 17 in the publisher's Illustrierte Klassiker series.
Translation and comic adaptation of Moby Dick, translated into German.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:53. Newberry only in OCLC.
55. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Übers. von Thesi Mutzenbecher unter Mitw. von Ernst Schnabel. Mit e. Essay "Zum Verständnis des Werkes" u. e. Bibliogr. von Hans-Joachim Lang. Hamburg: Rowohlt, [1958].
$50
12mo, pp. 427, [3]; original decorative limp blue cloth wrappers; text a little toned, else very good. Issued in the publisher's Klassiker der Literatur und der Wissenschaft series.
This translation by Theresia Mutzenbecher was first published in 1956; this looks to be the third printing ("76.-95. Tsd.").
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation 16:56.
56. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick die jagd nach dem weissen wal. [Translated by Karl Bahnmuller. Illustrated by Karl Frederich Brust]. Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblin Verlag, [1958].
$150
55-62 tausend, 8vo, pp. 390, [2]; map endpapers, illustrations by Brust throughout; original white linen binding stamped in blue, with a pictorial dust jacket and a glassine overlay dust jacket with printed flaps; binding spotted and dampstained, but not unsightly; a very good copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson at the bottom margin of the title page.
A German adaptation, first published in 1950.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:40. Of this printing only Zurich Central Library in OCLC.
57. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby-Dick: roman. [Translated by Thesi Mutzenbecher and Ernst Schnabel]. Hamburg: Claassen Verlag, [1964].
$45
Fifth edition, 8vo, pp. 459, [1]; original blue cloth in black and blue pictorial dust jacket; near fine. Publisher's postal card laid in.
This translation first published in 1955.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:36.
58. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick die jagd nach dem weissen wal. [Translated and adapted by Karl Bahnmuller. Illustrated by Karl Friederich Brust]. Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblin Verlag, [1968].
$125
"113-120 tausend," 8vo, pp. 390, [2]; map endpapers, illustrations by Brust throughout; original white linen binding stamped in black, with a pictorial dust jacket; fine copy.
A German adaptation, first published in 1950.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:40.
59. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick oder der wal. Vollständige Ausgabe mit Graphiken von Günther Stiller. [Űbertragen von Alice und Hans Seiffert. Mit einem Nachwort von Rudolf Sühnel]. Frankfurt am Main, Wien, Zurich: Büchergilde Gutenberg, [1968].
$125
8vo, pp. 608, [4]; numerous illustrations throughout, many full-page, by Günther Stiller; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine in original blue cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine, and preserving a near fine dust jacket.
The first Seiffert translation appears to have been published in 1956. This is the first printing with the Stiller illustrations.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:64.
60. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick oder der wal. [Translated by Alice and Hans Seiffert. Afterword by Karl-Heinz Wirzberger]. Berlin und Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1970.
$50
12mo, pp. 8vo, pp. 647, [1]; original blue cloth stamped in gilt and blue, dust jacket lightly worn along the top edge; very good, sound, and clean.
First edition of this translation into German of Moby Dick. The first translation into German was that of Wilhelm Strüver in 1927.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:67.
61. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. oder Der Wal. Vollstandige ausgabe. [Translated by Alice and Hans Seiffert. Afterword by Rudolf Suhnel]. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam Jun., [1972].
$35
12mo, pp. 758, [2]; near fine in original yellow printed wrappers. Issued as no. 9369-77 in the publisher's Universaal-Bibliothek series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16.71.
62. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick: Kapitän Ahab jagt den weissen Wal. [Translated and adapted by Roland Vocke]. Würzburg: Arena-Verlag, [1972].
$175
8vo, pp. 267, [5]; dust jacket and frontispiece by Herbert Lentz; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp, otherwise a fine copy in original cream cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine, preserving a nearly fine dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Arena-Bibliothek der Abenteuer series.
First edition of this translation.
Phelps, L.R. Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:72. Four in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
63. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Mit Bildern von Kurt Schmischke. [Übersetzt und bearbbeitet von Thomas Trent]. Gottingen: W. Fischer-Verlag, [1972].
$75
8vo, pp. 231, [3]; 12 color plates and numerous illustrations in the text by Kurt Schmischke; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else fine, bright, and clean in original pictorial boards.
This is a reissue of the Trent translation and adaptation of 1955 but with new illustrations appearing here for the first time.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:73.
64. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. In einer gekürzten Fassung nach Herman Melville. [Translated from the Italian by Waltraude Callsen]. Hamburg: Carlsen Verlag, [1976].
$45
8vo, pp. [4], 9-61, [1]; pictorial endpapers, color illustrations throughout; fine in original pictorial laminate boards. Issued as no. 1 in the publisher's Carlsen Abenteuer-Bücher series.
Second printing of a German adaptation for a juvenile audience.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16.74.
65. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Űbertragen von Alice und Hans Seiffert. Mit einem Nachwort von Rudolf Sühnel. Insel: Insel Verlag, [1977].
$50
2 volumes, 12mo, pp. 360, [8]; [8], 363-776, [10]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Issued as no. 233 in the publisher's Insel Taschenbuch series.
The first Seiffert translation appears to have been published in 1956. This is the first printing by this publisher.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:83.
66. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick: roman. Aus dem Amerikanoschen von Thesi Mutzenbecher und Ernst Schnabel. [Zurich]: Diogenes, [1977].
$35
12mo, pp. 568, [6]; generally fine in original pictorial wrappers. Issued as no. 142 in the publisher's Diogenes-Taschenbuch series.
This translation was first published in 1955.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:84.
67. [Moby Dick, in German.] Moby Dick. Deutsch von Fritz Güttinger. [Zurich]: Manesse, n.d., [ca. 1994].
$65
16mo (approx. 6" x 4"), pp. 918; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, and in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur series.
This translation first published in 1944.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:35.
68. [Moby Dick, in Hebrew.] מובי דיק / Mobi Diḳ. [Translated into Hebrew by Eliyahu Borṭniḳer]. Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv: M. Newman Publishing House ltd., [1970].
$125
8vo, pp. [26], 571, [3]; text in Hebrew; illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent and similar in format to the 1930 one-volume Random House edition, although not so nicely printed; pages 551-52 roughly opened with small loss in the blank fore-margin; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, preserving the original printed dust jacket slightly creased at the top of the spine.
This first Hebrew translation was first published in 1952.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 19:2.
69. [Moby Dick, in Hungarian.] Moby Dick a feher balna. [Translated by Szasz Imre. Illustrations by Kopeczi Bocz Istvan]. [Budapest]: Mora Ferenc Konyvkiado, [1958].
$150
8vo, pp. 395, [5]; text in Hungarian; map endpapers, 8 double-page illustrations by Kopeczi Bocz Istvan, plus head- and tail-pieces; fine copy in original pale-green cloth stamped in dark green, preserving a good or better dust jacket with a chip out at the top of the back panel, and several short tears.
Abridged edition, translated by Szasz Imre.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 21:2.
70. [Moby Dick, in Icelandic.] Moby Dick. Reykjavik: Guðmundur Karlsson Brekkustig, [1956].
$75
9¾" x 6¾", pp. [48]; printed in comic-book form and in color throughout; includes a full-page biography of Melville; very good, clean and sound. The comic book is published under agreements with Classics International in New York. Issued as no. 17 in the publisher's Sígildar sögur series.
Translation and comic adaptation of Moby Dick, translated into Icelandic. This is the first appearance of any edition of Moby Dick in Icelandic, and also the first appearance of any of Melville's texts in Icelandic.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 22:1. Newberry only in OCLC.
71. [Moby Dick, in Indonesian.] Moby Dick. Disederhanakan oleh A. S. M. Ronaldson, M.A. [Translated by Yulia Sri Haryani]. Jakarta: Penerbit PT Gramedia, 1981.
$65
12mo, pp. 163, [1]; 6 full-page illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; slight toning of the text block; very good. Issued as no. 76 in the publisher's Kancil series.
First edition of Moby Dick in Indonesian, albeit an adaptation intended for juvenile audiences.
72. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick o La balena. Traduzione di Cesare Pavese riveduta e migliorata. Torino: Frassinelli Tipografo Editore, 1953.
$125
Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. [6], ix-xiv, [2], 775, [9]; fine copy in original pictorial blue paper-covered boards, publisher's slipcase.
This translation, the first in Italian, was first published in 1932.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:32.
73. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick o la balena. [Traduzione di Bernardino Vieri.] Illustrazioni di [Giorgio] De Gaspari. Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, [1955].
$225
Small 4to (23.5 cm), pp. [2], 149, [3]; 4 color plates; pictorial boards; fine copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in lower margin of title page. Issued as no. 11 in the publisher's Classici Collezione per Ragazzi series.
First edition of this abridgement. The first Italian translation was by Pavese in 1932.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:38. OCLC locates the Newberry copy and one other copy in Italy.
74. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick o la balena. Illustrazioni di [Giorgio] De Gaspari. Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, [1955].
$225
First edition of this abridgement, small 4to (23.5 cm), pp. [2], 149, [3]; 4 color plates; pictorial boards; very good, sound, and clean copy.
The first translation into Italian was that of Cesare Pavese in 1932.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:38. OCLC locates the Newberry copy and one other in Italy.
75. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick; o, La balena bianca. [Traduzione e riduzione di Mario Giussani. Illustrazioni di Egis]. Torino: S.A.I.E. Editrice, 1957.
$125
Large 8vo, pp. [4], 7-150, [2]; original green pictorial boards; edges and corners bumped and rubbed, else mostly very good. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson. Issued as no. 25 in the publisher's La Trecentocinquanta series
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:36 citing the 1954 edition. Not found in OCLC.
76. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick. Romanzo per Ragazzi. [Adattamento di C. de Mattia. Illustrazioni di Musati]. Milano: Editrice Boschi, [1957].
$150
Large 8vo, pp. [2], 7-122, [2]; 8 color plates by Musati; lightly rubbed else near fine in original pictorial laminate boards. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in lower margin of title page. Issued as no. 42 in the publisher's Collana Strenna Cartonata series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation 24:42. Newberry only in OCLC.
77. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick (la belena bianca). [Translated and abridged by Aurelia Nutini. Introduction by Paolo Reynaudo]. Firenze: Marzocco, [1957].
$60
Fifth edition, 8vo, pp. 242, [2]; 4 color plates and text illustrations by R. Lemmi, pictorial paper wrappers; paper toned, wrappers lightly rubbed at edges, pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page, very good.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:30.
78. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick o la balena bianca. [Traduzione e riduzione di Mario Giussani]. Torino: Edizioni S.A.I.E., [1957].
$100
Small 4to, pp. [4], 7-201, [3]; title page printed in green and black; 11 full-page illustrations in the text and 3 color plates by Egis; jacket illustration by Ruffinelli; 2 small stains on the fore-edge, some toning to the text, else a near fine copy in the dust jacket.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:36 for a 1954 edition with differing pagination. OCLC locates only 1 copy in Padova; none in the U.S.
79. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick o la balena bianca. Introduzione e traduzione a cura di Cesarina Melandri Minoli. Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, [1958].
$150
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 385, [1]; [6], 389-770, [8] ads; frontispiece portrait; title pages printed in red and black; largely unopened; original tan wrappers printed in black and red, and with a pictorial onlay on each upper cover; some toning, else near fine throughout.
First edition of this translation into Italian of Moby Dick. Issued as no. 229-230 in the publisher's I Grandi Scrittori Stranieri series. The first translation into Italian was that of Cesare Pavese in 1932.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:44.
80. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick la balena bianca. [Translated and abridged by Romaualdo Bacci. Illustrated by F. Baldi]. Bologna: Edizioni Capitol, [1959].
$250
8vo, pp. [2], 190; 4 color plates; cushioned pictorial boards; fine copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in lower margin of title page.
An abridgement, copy no. 986 of an unspecified limited edition; first published in 1956 but this 1959 printing is not found in OCLC.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:40.
81. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick (la belena bianca). Illustrazioni di Roberto Lemmi. [Translated and abridged by Aurelia Nutini] . Firenze: Bemporad-Marzocco, 1960.
$150
Settima edizione, large 8vo, pp. 207, [5]; 4 color plates; original white and blue pictorial boards (some minor soiling); edges a bit scuffed, else very good and sound.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:30. This edition first published in Florence in 1948. This sixth edition not in OCLC.
82. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick a cura di Giorgio Perni. Illustrazioni di M. Vettor Cassinari. Milano: Editrice Piccoli, [1963].
$175
First edition of this Italian abridgement, 8vo, pp. 175, [1]; numerous illustrations throughout, some in color, some full-page; a very good, sound and clean copy in the original pictorial laminate boards. Issued as no. 23 in the publisher's La Ginestra series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:50. Newberry only in OCLC.
83. [Moby Dick, in Italian.] Moby Dick o La balena. Prefazione e traduzione di Cesare Pavese. [Torino]: Edizioni Frassinelli, [1966].
$75
"Ottava edizione," 8vo, pp. [7], x-xxxi, [1], 703, [1]; original cream cloth stamped in black and red; some small spots and soiling; all else very good, sound, and clean. Issued as no. 5 in the publisher's Numeri Rossi series.
This translation, the first in Italian, was first published in 1932.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:27.
84. [Moby Dick, in Japanese.] 白鯨 : モビイ・ディック / Hakugei: Mobii dikku. [Translated by Nishizaki Ichirō]. [Tokyo: Jiji Tsūshinsha, 1959].
$125
12mo, pp. 266, [8]; double-sided frontispiece showing Gregory Peck in the 1956 film adaptation of Moby Dick, and a painting of a whaling scene; original limp blue cloth stamped in black, preserving a near fine dust jacket.
A Japanese abridgement, and a reprint of the 1956 edition. Both editions are held by the Newberry and the National Diet Library only.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:18.
85. [Moby Dick, in Japanese.] 白鯨 / Hakugei / Moby Dick. [Translated and adapted, with an afterword by Tatsuki Kameyama]. Tokyo: Iwasaki-Shoten, 1967.
$125
8vo, pp. [6], iii, [5], 311, [3]; text in double column; illustrated throughout by an anonymous illustrator; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, clear plastic dust jacket, publisher's slipcase. Issued as no. 11 in the publisher's Junior World Literature series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:34. Newberry only in OCLC.
86. [Moby Dick, in Japanese.] Hakugei. [Moby Dick. Translated with an afterword by Tomoji Abe]. [Tokyo]: Kawade-Shobo, [1968].
$125
8vo, pp. [6], 5-394, [2]; color portrait of Melville, 12 color plates by an anonymous illustrator, and a number of illustrations from various sources in the commentary at the back; original decorative black cloth stamped in gilt and red, publisher's plastic dust jacket (with a few small breaks at the extremities, publisher's slipcase; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; generally fine. Publisher's bifoliate prospectus laid in. Issued as no. 14 in the publisher's Collection of World Literature series.
Abe's translation of Moby Dick in 1939 was the first into Japanese. This is the first edition with these illustrations
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:35.
87. [Moby Dick, in Japanese.] Hakugei. [Moby Dick. Translated wih an afterword and notes by Takashi Nozaki]. [Tokyo]: Chūō Kōronsha, [1972].
$150
First edition of this translation; 12mo, pp. [2], 617, [3]; full-page map, portrait of Melville, 3 pages of ship diagrams, a color illustration of Arrowhead, and scattered illustrations throughout after Rockwell Kent; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate (upside down) and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original pictorial cream cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, preserving the original plastic dust jacket and publisher's box. Publisher's booklet and order form laid in. Issued as no. 11 in the publisher's Treasury of World Literature series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:39.
88. [Moby Dick, in Japanese.] 白鯨 : モビー・ディック(上) / Hakugei: Mobī Dikku. [Translated by Noboru Sakashita]. [Tokyo]: Kodansha, [1973].
$150
16mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¼"), pp. 617, [8]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original pictorial wrappers.
First edition of this translation. Volume II is commentary primarily based on The Trying Out of Moby Dick by Howard Vincent, as well as other American commentaries.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:40. Only the Newberry copy in OCLC.
89. [Moby Dick, in Japanese.] 白鯨 / Hakugei = Moby Dick. [Translated with an afterword by Katsuji Takamura. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent]. [Tokyo: Ohbunsha, 1974].
$125
Third printing (this translation first published in 1973), 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. 425, [7]; 467, [5]; double-page map, illustrations throughout by Rockwell Kent; original printed green card wrappers, dust jackets; generally fine.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 25:41.
90. [Moby Dick, in Korean.] 白鯨 [= Paekkyŏng]. Moby Dick ... simplified & adapteb [sic] by Robert J. Dixson. Regents Publishing Co., New York. Copyright 1953. [Translated by Hŭi-yŏp No]. [Seoul: Ŭryu Munhwasa, 1958].
$125
8vo, pp. 209, [3]; 8 illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers; very good, sound, and clean copy.
Third edition of this abridgement, the first Korean translation of Moby Dick.
Newberry only in OCLC. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 26:1, noting no earlier printing.
91. [Moby Dick, in Korean.] 白鯨 = Paekkyŏng = Moby Dick. [Translated by Ka-hyŏng Yi]. [Seoul: Dongshu Publishing Company, 1979].
$100
12mo, pp. 640, [2]; 6 color illustrations, including a portrait of Melville, on rectos and versos of two plates; generally fine in original cream card wrappers stamped in black on the spine, and pictorial dust jacket. Issued as no. 52 in the publisher's Great Books series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 26:4 noting the 1973 edition of this translation with 603 pages and without illustration.
92. [Moby Dick, in Modern Greek.] Mompi Ntik. [Translated by Othon Argyropoulos. Illustrated by Kosta Malamou]. Athens: N. Alikiotis & Sons, [1957].
$250
8vo, pp. 131, [5]; illustrated throughout; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; bottom of spine bumped, else a near fine copy in original pictorial boards, preserving a very good dust jacket (showing a baleen whale, not a sperm whale) with a few short breaks at the extremities. Issued as no. 75 in the publisher's Book for the Children series.
First edition of this translation, an adaptation in Modern Greek for a juvenile audience. This and the Mitropoulou translation of the full novel - both published in 1957, are the first Modern Greek translations of Moby Dick. Typee appeared in Modern Greek in 1954.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 17:2. Not found in OCLC although there is a copy at the Newberry.
93. [Moby Dick, in Modern Greek.] Mompi Ntik. [Translated by Aglaias Mitropoulou]. Athens: Atlantis Publishing & Trading House Pechlivanidi S.A., n.d. [ca. 1960].
$250
8vo, pp. 175, [1]; numerous illustrations throughhout by I. Dragon, some in color, some full-page; a very good, sound and clean copy in the original pictorial boards and dust jacket. Issued as no. 21 in the publisher's Classical Youth Library series.
First edition of this Modern Greek abridgement.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:4 (but with varying pagination). Not found in OCLC although there is a copy at the Newberry
94. [Moby Dick, in Norwegian.] Moby Dick eller den hvite hvalen. [Translated by Ove Hestvold]. [Gjøvik, Norway]: Ansgar, [1957].
$150
8vo, pp. 277, [1]; text in Norwegian; fine copy in original beige cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards and preserving a near fine pictorial dust jacket with a rendition of Gregory Peck as Ahab, from the John Huston Paramount Pictures release of 1956.
Abridged edition, translated by Ove Hestvold.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 31:7. Newberry only in OCLC.
95. [Moby Dick, in Persian.] موبى دىک : ىا وال سفىد = Mūbī Dīk: yā vāl-i sifīd. [Translated by Parvīz Dāryūsh]. Tihrān: Muʼassash-i Chāp va Intishārāt-i Amīr Kabīr, bā hamkārī-i Muʼassasah-ʼi Intishārāt-i Frānklīn, [1965].
$300
8vo, pp. 24, 524, [2]; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards.
The first complete edition in Persian.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 33.2 (with varying pagination). LC, Newberry and Dartmouth are the only copies cited in OCLC as being in the U.S.
96. [Moby Dick, in Polish.] Moby dick czyli bialy wieloryb. [Translated by Bronislaw Zielinski]. [Warsaw]: Czytelnik, [1956].
$125
8vo, pp. 676; printed paper wrappers with vignette on upper wrapper; corner bumped, like foxing and creasing to wrappers, text toned but clean and sound, pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page, very good.
Second edition of this translation, published without the afterword by Janusz Wilhelmi. Moby Dick was first translated into Polish in 1929 under the title Bestja morska.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 34:6.
97. [Moby Dick, in Polish.] Moby Dick czyli Biały wieloryb. [Translated by Bronisław Zieliński]. Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1956.
$100
8vo, pp. [3]-676; some wear and small chips at the spine ends, and likely missing either a half-title or flyleaf; all else good or better, and sound.
This is the second edition of this translation, first published in 1954 with an Afterword not present here. This edition does, however, include a glossary by Mieczyslaw Boczar.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 34.6. OCLC locates 11 copies, only the Newberry and Dartmouth in OCLC. OCLC locates only the L.A. Public Library copy of the 1954 edition.
98. [Moby Dick, in Portuguese.] Moby Dick a baleia branca ... versao de Alsácia Fontes Machado. Lisboa: Portugália Editora, [1961].
$125
12mo, pp. [3]-213, [3]; original pictorial wrappers; very good, sound, and clean. Issued as no. 21 in the publisher's Biblioteca dos rapazes series.
Second edition of this translation in Portuguese, an adaptation for a juvenile audience which was first published in 1951.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 35:9. OCLC locates only the Newberry copy.
99. [Moby Dick, in Portuguese.] Moby Dick. Prefácio Rachel de Queiroz. Tradução Berenice Xavier. Rio de Janerio: Edições de Ouro, [1967].
$45
12mo, pp. 555, [5]; portrait of the author, portrait of Melville's wife, Elizabeth, portrait of Moby Dick, facsimile letter, and a view of New York; original pictorial wrappers; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp, otherwise a very good to near fine copy. Issued as no. 784 in the publisher's Clássicos de Bôso: Inglêses e Americanos series.
Third edition of this Portuguese translation which first appeared in 1950, and again in 1957 in two volumes with illustrations by Rockwell Kent.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 35:72. OCLC locates 3 copies in the U.S.: Newberry, Dartmouth, and West Florida Public Library.
100. [Moby Dick, in Portuguese.] Moby Dick ou a baleia. [Traducao de Péricles Eugenio da Silva Ramos]. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, [1972].
$100
8vo, pp. [8], 11-668, [2]; inscription on half-title dated 1976; all else very good, sound, and clean in original crimson leatherette stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Issued as no. 43 in the publisher's Os Imortais da Literatura Universal series.
First edition of this translation. Phelps notes that a 20-page illustrated pamphlet titled "Melville" was issued concurrently with this volume, but is not present here.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 35:23. Three in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.