MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original plum cloth, sides blindstamped with a Grolieresque frame, white wove endpapers, spine faded with ends worn, three fore-corners worn, upper third of spine (with gilt-lettered title and author) filled in with black ink to imitate a label, slightly shaken, the usual foxing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, the scarcer second binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664 (noting only blue and gray cloth on this second binding and asking "also other colors?"); Hill, p. 197; Grolier/American 60. | Christie's

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MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original plum cloth, sides blindstamped with a Grolieresque frame, white wove endpapers, spine faded with ends worn, three fore-corners worn, upper third of spine (with gilt-lettered title and author) filled in with black ink to imitate a label, slightly shaken, the usual foxing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, the scarcer second binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664 (noting only blue and gray cloth on this second binding and asking "also other colors?"); Hill, p. 197; Grolier/American 60.

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MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or the Whale. New York: Harper 1851. 8vo, original plum cloth, sides blindstamped with a Grolieresque frame, white wove endpapers, spine faded with ends worn, three fore-corners worn, upper third of spine (with gilt-lettered title and author) filled in with black ink to imitate a label, slightly shaken, the usual foxing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, the scarcer second binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664 (noting only blue and gray cloth on this second binding and asking "also other colors?"); Hill, p. 197; Grolier/American 60.