The life & death of Mocha Dick
By: by Randall Enos
Contributors: Strike Three Press
Publisher: Strike Three Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Autographs; Sources; Whales in art; Whales in literature; American Sea stories
Other titles: Life and death of Mocha Dick; Mocha Dick
Notes: "In 1841, Herman Melville sailed out to the whaling grounds of the South Pacific where he heard the legend of Mocha Dick.  This huge bull sperm whale was known to attack whaling ships and battle his pursuers as they tried to harpoon him.  Melville turned the whaler's quest of Mocha Dick into the story of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick.  Randall Enos tells the story of Mocha Dick, the hero of whales, and depicts the whale's great battles and legendary encounters in a suite of eleven linoleum cuts."--Strike Three Press.

Limited edition of 32, handbound and letterpress, numbered and signed by the artist.

"Printed on  Antique White Folio paper with Cochin body text and Thorowgood display type at The Arm NYC in Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York by Virginia M. Cahill & Daniel K. Smith of Strike Three Press."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 23.

Includes bibliographical references.