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Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and the cofounder of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book company based in Washington, DC. She was the rare books specialist on the HISTORY Channel’s show Pawn Stars, and in 2019, she was featured in the documentary on the rare book trade, The Booksellers. She is also the author of Jane Austen's Bookshelf.
The writing career of Herman Melville (1819–1891) peaked early, with his early novels, such as Typee, becoming bestsellers. By the mid-1850s his poularity declined sharply, and by the time he died he had been largely forgotten. Yet in time his novel Moby Dick came to be regarded as one of the finest works of American, and indeed world, literature, as was Billy Budd, Sailor, which was not published until long after his death, in 1924.
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager from Tarrytown, New York, and is known as one of America's foremost illustrators. He provided illustrations for numerous famous works such as Moby Dick, Beowulf, Voltaire's Candide, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, The Canterbury Tales, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and many more. |
