Billy Budd, John Lehmann edition
Contributed by Stephen Coles on Jul 9th, 2015. Artwork published in
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Despite Playbill’s contemporary associations with the Wild West, the ropes on this cover don’t refer to cowboys, but rather to seafaring, the subject of this Melville tale.
