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MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original sage-green cloth, sides blindstamped with publisher's circular device at center, orange (salmon)-coated endpapers, some faint marks from old damp on covers, extremities slightly rubbed, fore-corners a bit worn, an inch piece chipped from blank lower right corner of title-leaf, the preceding two flyleaves and the rear free endpaper, brown half morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Hill, p. 197; Grolier American 60. Actually a very good copy, the text remarkably free of the usual foxing.