MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 8vo, original green cloth, dark orange-salmon endpapers, skilfully recased with repairs to ends of spine, fore-corners slightly worn, the two front flyleaves supplied, the usual foxing to text, half green morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60. | Christie's

Lot 42

MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 8vo, original green cloth, dark orange-salmon endpapers, skilfully recased with repairs to ends of spine, fore-corners slightly worn, the two front flyleaves supplied, the usual foxing to text, half green morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

Details

MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 8vo, original green cloth, dark orange-salmon endpapers, skilfully recased with repairs to ends of spine, fore-corners slightly worn, the two front flyleaves supplied, the usual foxing to text, half green morocco slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

Provenance: Ownership inscription of "Brockholst Livingstone, Brighton. Decr. 1851" on front paste-down.