mudwerks: (via Golden Age Comic Book Stories) Mead Schaeffer - Moby Dick by Herman Melville  Published by Dodd, Mead & Co ~ 1923

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Mead Schaeffer - Moby Dick by Herman Melville 

Published by Dodd, Mead & Co ~ 1923

1965 … The Bedford Incident Richard Widmark as ‘Captain Finlander USN’ IMDb: An American destroyer captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined. The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox and Eric Portman, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. The screenplay by James Poe is based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich, which was patterned after Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. movie trailer on You Tube full size full size -posted by x-ray delta one

1965 … The Bedford Incident

Richard Widmark as ‘Captain Finlander USN’

IMDb: An American destroyer captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.

The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark.

The cast also features James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox and Eric Portman, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop.

The screenplay by James Poe is based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich, which was patterned after Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

movie trailer on You Tube

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indubitability: Andrey Kuz’ma

indubitability:

Andrey Kuz’ma

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ILLUSTRATIONS FROM NOVELS… This from TYPEE, a novel by Herman Melville. Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias.Of all of the novels by Melville that I have read, this is one of the lighter works; it is a narrative of adventure that most youthful people with a spirit for exploration would enjoy. This novel in my collection is full of Covarrubias’ unique and illustrative art.Published by the Heritage Press with copyrighted works 1935. This book is part of my personal collection.  -by roberthuffstutter

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM NOVELS… This from TYPEE, a novel by Herman Melville. Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias.

Of all of the novels by Melville that I have read, this is one of the lighter works; it is a narrative of adventure that most youthful people with a spirit for exploration would enjoy. This novel in my collection is full of Covarrubias’ unique and illustrative art.

Published by the Heritage Press with copyrighted works 1935. This book is part of my personal collection.

 -by roberthuffstutter

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Cover art for German language version of Moby Dick; Btb Bei Goldmann publishers, 2003. walkingliberty: Whaleboat knocked into the air by Leviathan. 

Cover art for German language version of Moby Dick; Btb Bei Goldmann publishers, 2003.

walkingliberty:

Whaleboat knocked into the air by Leviathan. 

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book-aesthete: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville, New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First American edition, in scarce lovely unrestored original cloth, of Melville’s rare classic. Octavo, original stamped green cloth, orange-brown endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. “Arguably the greatest single work in American literature, Moby-Dick was initially “a complete practical failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harper’s fire destroyed the plates of all his books and most of the copies remaining in stock (only about 60 copies of Moby-Dick survived the fire)…”

book-aesthete:

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville, New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 1851.

First American edition, in scarce lovely unrestored original cloth, of Melville’s rare classic. Octavo, original stamped green cloth, orange-brown endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

“Arguably the greatest single work in American literature, Moby-Dick was initially “a complete practical failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harper’s fire destroyed the plates of all his books and most of the copies remaining in stock (only about 60 copies of Moby-Dick survived the fire)…”

anneyhall: “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” Herman Melville (American, 1819–1891) (Photo: 1860)

anneyhall:

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

Herman Melville (American, 1819–1891)

(Photo: 1860)

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The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl

starbsAnd so the Starbucks logo is a brilliant piece of design, which, oddly enough, resonates with much of what I’ve discussed above. The original logo made quite explicit that Starbucks was using the lure of female sexuality to draw the customer to their coffee, but now you can see that the coffee is linked to the double lure of ultimate wisdom and the pleasures of the flesh. The name of the company, about which there is relatively little deep inquiry, actually makes the connection even more interesting. Apparently, the owners of Starbucks originally wanted to call their company “Moby’s Coffee,” referring to Moby Dick, the great white whale in Herman Melville’s classic novel (which is read as a Christian allegory, the whale representing Christ). But bringing up the image of a giant whale was deemed potentially unattractive for coffee drinkers. And so a new logo was designed, but the name “Starbucks” maintains the connection to Moby Dick—Starbuck is the name of the coffee-drinking first mate from Nantucket, the only man who challenges the mad Ahab.

Entire Article: The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl

jtojto: M.D.

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M.D.

View from the northeast of Arrowhead, the residence of writer Herman Melville April 1934; 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. more dismal landscaping

View from the northeast of Arrowhead, the residence of writer Herman Melville

April 1934; 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

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thingsihappentolike: Moby Dick - Herman Melville by Tatsuya Morino

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Moby Dick - Herman Melville by Tatsuya Morino

tuesday-johnson: The Essex, an infamous American whaleship, was sunk by a sperm whale, leaving the crew stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The boat was sailing from Nantucket, Massachusetts on a two and a half year whale hunting voyage to the South Pacific when it encountered a whale that rammed the ship twice and sank it. The twenty-one sailors used their under-supplied rescue boats and landed on the tiny, uninhabited Henderson Island. After only one week, though, they had exhausted the island’s natural resources, and all but three concluded it was best to leave, as the island would not sustain them any longer. The three that stayed on the island were eventually rescued, but were near death-while the other eighteen had horrifying ordeals on the sea. As the days passed, crew began dying from lack of food and fresh water. Initially they “buried” their dead at sea-but soon began resorting to cannibalism in desperation. At one point, the remaining crew drew straws as to who would be sacrificed-and drew them again for who would kill the unfortunate shipmate. As it so happened Charles Ramsdell drew the straw to kill his good friend Owen Coffin. Around 95 days after the sinking of the Essex, most of the groups were rescued by passing ships. Overall, only eight of the twenty-one survived the ordeal. One of the survivors, Owen Chase (pictured above), wrote an account of the disaster, which later inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”. via

tuesday-johnson:

The Essex, an infamous American whaleship, was sunk by a sperm whale, leaving the crew stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The boat was sailing from Nantucket, Massachusetts on a two and a half year whale hunting voyage to the South Pacific when it encountered a whale that rammed the ship twice and sank it.

The twenty-one sailors used their under-supplied rescue boats and landed on the tiny, uninhabited Henderson Island. After only one week, though, they had exhausted the island’s natural resources, and all but three concluded it was best to leave, as the island would not sustain them any longer. The three that stayed on the island were eventually rescued, but were near death-while the other eighteen had horrifying ordeals on the sea.

As the days passed, crew began dying from lack of food and fresh water. Initially they “buried” their dead at sea-but soon began resorting to cannibalism in desperation. At one point, the remaining crew drew straws as to who would be sacrificed-and drew them again for who would kill the unfortunate shipmate. As it so happened Charles Ramsdell drew the straw to kill his good friend Owen Coffin.

Around 95 days after the sinking of the Essex, most of the groups were rescued by passing ships.

Overall, only eight of the twenty-one survived the ordeal. One of the survivors, Owen Chase (pictured above), wrote an account of the disaster, which later inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”.

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book-aesthete: Moby Dick or The Whale Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1930. Illustration: 3 volumes. Illustrated with 280 reproductions of pen, brush and ink illustrations by Rockwell Kent. 11x8, original black cloth stamped decoratively in silver, top edges stained black, pages unopened and untrimmed, original acetate covers, housed in the publisher’s aluminum slipcase. First Kent Illustrated Edition. One of 1000 sets printed under the supervision of William A. Kittredge for R. R. Donnelley & Sons. Inscribed by Rockwell Kent in the first volume. Magnificent Rockwell Kent renderings for this major American novel. Includes the often-lacking original publisher’s aluminum slipcase. Rockwellkentiana p. 62. Provenance: From a private collection.

book-aesthete:

Moby Dick or The Whale
Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1930.


Illustration:

3 volumes. Illustrated with 280 reproductions of pen, brush and ink illustrations by Rockwell Kent. 11x8, original black cloth stamped decoratively in silver, top edges stained black, pages unopened and untrimmed, original acetate covers, housed in the publisher’s aluminum slipcase. First Kent Illustrated Edition. One of 1000 sets printed under the supervision of William A. Kittredge for R. R. Donnelley & Sons.

Inscribed by Rockwell Kent in the first volume. Magnificent Rockwell Kent renderings for this major American novel. Includes the often-lacking original publisher’s aluminum slipcase. Rockwellkentiana p. 62. Provenance: From a private collection.

slang-king: USA - Herman Melville (after J. O. Eaton) - 1982

slang-king:

USA - Herman Melville (after J. O. Eaton) - 1982