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Herman Melville, 1851
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville, 1851
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
A fine copy of the first American edition, first binding. The American edition of Melville's 1851 whaling novel contained some thirty-five passages not present in the English edition, which had preceded it by a month. This copy has the first binding with publisher's circular device and a heavy rule frame on both covers. This copy is remarkable for its handsome first state cloth binding in preferred sea-green color, free from restoration, and in its freedom from the usual foxing to the text. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57.
Octavo. Six-page publisher's advertisement at end (small repairs to lower corners of first two preliminaries and to lower free endpaper). Original blue-green cloth stamped in blind, orange coated endpapers (mildest rubbing to covers and a few pale water-spots); custom brown chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Jerusha E. Swain, Chloe M. Bigelow, Louis W. Hall (pencil names on front flyleaf).
Herman Melville, 1851
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
A fine copy of the first American edition, first binding. The American edition of Melville's 1851 whaling novel contained some thirty-five passages not present in the English edition, which had preceded it by a month. This copy has the first binding with publisher's circular device and a heavy rule frame on both covers. This copy is remarkable for its handsome first state cloth binding in preferred sea-green color, free from restoration, and in its freedom from the usual foxing to the text. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57.
Octavo. Six-page publisher's advertisement at end (small repairs to lower corners of first two preliminaries and to lower free endpaper). Original blue-green cloth stamped in blind, orange coated endpapers (mildest rubbing to covers and a few pale water-spots); custom brown chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Jerusha E. Swain, Chloe M. Bigelow, Louis W. Hall (pencil names on front flyleaf).
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