Heritage fine press editon of two Herman Melville novellas Benito Cereno and Billy Budd published in 1965. If you have a LEC of this book or a Sandglass for the Heritage New York printing, please drop me a line here or through the comments at my thread about this blog at the George Macy Devotees LibraryThing! I could use extra insights into this book.Description: VF, 176 pp. I failed to realize it lacked a Sandglass – probably because this was my second choice, but my friend bought the first after I showed it to her. Personal Notes – I purchased this in Flagstaff, Arizona for $15 or so.
– Shore has a knack for seascapes – may be why he did so many for the LEC! Most are two-page spreads, but there’s a couple of single page paintings, as well. Maxwell Geismar offers his thoughts as an introduction.īilly Budd Introduction – Both stories have a nice page introducing them like this example from Billy Budd. Title Page – Rather barren, isn’t it? Shore’s work was saved for the interior. Slipcase – Bold red against the black and white. Shore’s style is pretty distinctive, and it’s one I do enjoy. All but the latter have Heritage reprints it would seem.
Robert Shore started his LEC career when Melville concluded his – Helen and Jonathan Macy and Cardevon would require his services for another four LEC books, including Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in 1969, From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon by Jules Verne in 1970 (a lovely book), a collection of Conrad’s stories Youth, Typhoon and The End of the Tether in 1972, and his last, another Conrad, An Outcast from the Islands, in 1975. Speaking from my experience, Melville is one of the trickier authors to track down Macy books for – I’ve only seen this and Moby Dick once, respectively. Helen Macy would pick up the Melville bug for two more books during her tenure, with Omoo arriving in 1961 with art from Reynolds Stone, and then this one, done in 1965. Melville would see four of his works produced by the Limited Editions Club – Typee to begin in 1935, with Miguel Covarrubias doing the artistic honors, followed by the 2-volume Moby Dick in 1943, featuring Boardman Robinson’s talent.
Effective choice, but I don’t know who came up with it or any other publishing info due to a lack of Sandglass. 5 in 1965įront Binding – For this printing of Herman Melville’s legendary short stories of the sea, the Heritage Press utilized the two-cloth method of binding, in this case black and white, with the titles the reverse on the spine (see below).
Billy Budd and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (1965)
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