Inevitably there will be some last-minute cancellations as well," said Raff. "We still have some slots available, mostly Saturday evening. Yes, there is still time to sign up as a volunteer to read. Some readers take on more than one passage as the entire, unabridged version of the book is read. The library divides the book's reading into 111 time slots. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, April 30, 10 a.m.
This year's reading marathon will take place Friday, April 28, 10 a.m. "It began as a way to acknowledge Provincetown's whaling history." Provincetown was nearly on a par with New Bedford by 1870 in revenue from whaling.Īccording to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, by 1870 the town was one of the wealthiest in the state because of revenue from whaling, and nearly on a par with New Bedford - which is where Moby Dick's narrator, Ishmael, stops before heading to Nantucket and joining the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the revenge-hungry Captain Ahab. Today, Moby-Dick is considered one of the greatest American novels."The library has been doing this for eight years, although it is our sixth in-person marathon because, during the pandemic we had online events for two years," said Provincetown Library Director Amy Raff.
These range in value from $9,000 to $11,000.A total of 3,215 copies of Moby-Dick were sold during Melville's life (he died in 1891). Another collectible edition is the 1930 first edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent, a three-volume set published by the Lakeside Press with acetate dust jackets in an aluminum slipcase.
Also, expect heavy wear and maybe even minor repair. Most of the first editions have orange end-papers, although there are 2 known volumes with rare white-endpapers.īecause of Nineteenth-century printing practices, and the time-lapse between when the first-editions were published and Melville became collectible, oxidized paper, bumped and chipped spines, and brittle wrappers are all common for even the most expensive and collectible of these books, which can sell from $35,000 to $100,000. After two years copies of the first edition were still available, and almost 300 were destroyed in the 1853 fire of Harper's warehouse. About 1,500 sold in 11 days, but then sales slowed to less than 300 the next year. Of the 2,951 copies printed, 125 were review copies. Melville changed the title to Moby Dick a month later, November 1851, when the American Version was published in one volume by Harper & Brothers in NY. The remaining unbound sheets were bound in a cheaper casing in 1852, and in 1853 there were still enough remaining sheets to again bind into an even cheaper edition. Richard Bentley to reduce the printing to only 500 copies, and of that, only 300 sold in the first 4 months. Slow sales of Melville's previously books convinced Publisher L. Melville's classic was first published in England as three volumes titled The Whale in October 1851.
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