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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Melville Press is pleased to offer its award winning limited editon artist's book CETUS, The Whale; an illustrated companion to Moby Dick, to the ARLIS list. This letterpress limited editon of 200 is printed in two colors on Arches 88 paper by John Robinson of the Tortise Press. It includes twelve engraved portraits of the Pequod's crew by Catherine Kanner. Text by Melville, Shakespeare and Milton. Hand bound with a unique accordion binding by Allwyn O'Mara with hand made endpapers, silk cover and silver foil stamping. CETUS has been honored with a 1997 Rounce & Coffin Award for excellence in book design, and is touring the United States in the Western Books Exhibition. The edition has been collected by many fine libraries across the U.S. including Yale, Dartmouth, University of Delaware, University of Hawaii, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, The Newberry Library, UCLA among others. You may preview the book at our website: http://colophon.com/gallery/melville Special Price to libraries and institutions: $190.00 Retail Price: $250.00 Custom Plex Case: $25.00 Broadside Available The Melville Press Tel. & Fax: (310) 454-7675 email: [log in to unmask]