MELVILLE, HERMAN. Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Month's Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. New York: Wiley and Putnam; London: John Murray, 1846. 2 volumes, 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, part 1 with rear wrapper lacking and with spine chipped, part 2 with spine chipped and repaired and with a blank corner of a leaf torn away, brown cloth slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, BAL's form B of part 1 wrappers, frontispiece map in part 1. BAL 13653. The uncommon wrappered copies were issued simultaneously with the cloth-bound ones. Bookplate of E. Hurbert Litchfield. (2)