Info on this copy of moby dick?

a cooy of Moby Dick printed in 1930......might be worth $2 in a used book store. 

Millions upon Millions of copies and reprints have been made over the years in a dozen different forms, including a Classic Comics version. 

Simply put,  if your book was a first edition or signed by the author. you might have something there....... but as such, you're looking at one of a million  junky copies.-----utterly worthess.  Rarity.....ZERO .

I could walk into any thrift store or Goodwill and probably find a dozen copies of Moby Dick. 

Ten bucks, Take it or leave it.

Jo, you are, if genuine, truly weird.

I *collect* second hand books and I'm certainly not alone.

try a shop that sells second hand books !!!

I'm going to bet anyone $100 that the spine does NOT say:

"moby dick Melville".

There were no paperbacks and millions of people read it.  $5 tops.

I'm finding five publishers who issued an edition in 1930. Prices range from under ten dollars (US) to over five hundred. The absence of a dust jacket is a negative. The minor damage visible on the cover is another detraction and suggests there's likely to be similar wear inside.

I did not find this specific edition. Knowing who published it, whether there is a foreword and who wrote it, and the copyright page would tell us more. (Lots of the ones I saw listed had no image.)

Most likely, it's worth less than twenty-five dollars--and frankly, to me owning a ninety-year-old book people still read is worth more than that.

As Andrew said,  the cover has some wear and stains, so you would not get much for it. If the pages are loose, stained, brittle, brown or discolored, it will be worth even less.

Other than paying for a book appraisal, a quick but not accurate way to see what it is worth would be to go to www.abebooks.com and type in the title, author, year published and publisher. (Those are found on the title page)  You will find what prices certain used book stores will sell their copies for. They would give you much less to buy yours, in order to make their profit.

The book was published in 1851 - that means it's 170 years old. Your copy is from 1930, which would make it 91 years old. Except for a few years at the end of Melville's life, the book has never been out of print and there are a great many copies available. There are plenty of books that are a hundred years old or two hundred years old that are still widely read. Having a hardback from 1930 isn't like having a Shakespeare folio or something. I myself have a great many hardbacks that are at least a hundred years old. My hardback copy of Ray Bradbury's "Dark Carnival" from 1947 is probably worth somewhere around $1,000, and it's not even as old as your book. But it is much rarer, and therefore worth money. As another respondent previously mentioned, the book must have originally come with a dust jacket, so you won't find any information going on the actual cover. I don't know what you expect to learn asking this question, but I suspect you think that you might be able to make a bit of coin flogging it somewhere. Sorry to disillusion you, but you won't. It's just another run-of-the-mill old book that's still widely available that doesn't look as though it's in particularly good condition anyway. 

You don't find information about a book by looking for a matching cover. The book undoubtedly originally had a bookjacket.  Post a picture of the title page and you might get more help. We need to know the publisher, the date, and the place of publication.