MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original drab purple-brown cloth, orange-salmon endpapers, a bit worn at ends of spine, fore-corners, and along upper outer joint, inner hinges a little tender, a bookplate or label removed from a front flyleaf leaving an abrasion, the usual foxing; green morocco pull-off case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60. | Christie's

Lot 96

MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original drab purple-brown cloth, orange-salmon endpapers, a bit worn at ends of spine, fore-corners, and along upper outer joint, inner hinges a little tender, a bookplate or label removed from a front flyleaf leaving an abrasion, the usual foxing; green morocco pull-off case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

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MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original drab purple-brown cloth, orange-salmon endpapers, a bit worn at ends of spine, fore-corners, and along upper outer joint, inner hinges a little tender, a bookplate or label removed from a front flyleaf leaving an abrasion, the usual foxing; green morocco pull-off case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

Provenance: Nineteenth-century ownership inscription of Philip G. Brown on front endpaper, publication price of book ($1.50) on rear endpaper, and bookplate on front free endpaper.