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A Reader’s Guide to Herman Melville, First Edition

Contributed by Stephen Coles on Jul 25th, 2016. Artwork published in .

3 Comments on “A Reader’s Guide to Herman Melville, First Edition”

  1. See Volta + herring. Also, I wonder what came first, the logo of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Giroux), or the one for Fischer Bücherei (Wolf D. Zimmermann, 1952).

  2. Thank you very much, Benjamin! That article is a treasure trove.

    The three fish of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux were pulled directly from Noonday Press upon its acquisition in 1960. They had been employed as a device on the cover of Noonday’s short-lived, self-titled literary magazine, […] published during 1958 and 1959 […]

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