Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". Decorative Bonded Leather Edition, First Edition, Second Printing Thus, 2015. Early printing of a popular decorating piece. Octavo, blue background bonded leather boards with illustrations and decorations in silver, green and black on both covers and spine; spine ribbed; All Edges Silver; patterned endpapers; satin page-marker ribbon; xli 614 pp. An extraordinarily handsome decorative edition, the equal of any in Barnes and Noble's series of such editions. New, and flawless. Removed from publisher's shrink wrap only for scanning and description here. See all scans. Melville's timeless tale of obsession in man against nature - and against his personal instincts.