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Herman Melville, 1854-55
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Israel Potter and Benito Cereno in Putnam's Monthly
Herman Melville, 1854-55
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Israel Potter and Benito Cereno. In Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art. Vols 4, 5, & 6. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., July 1854-July 1855.
The first appearances of two works in Putnam's Monthly, with a tipped in signature by Melville. The signature, dated 1882, is mounted to the verso of the frontispiece in the first volume. It is accompanied by an explanatory autograph letter (mounted to a flyleaf) from his niece Maria Gansevoort Hoadley (1855-1904) sending "this autograph of Uncle Herman's" to a Miss Fitch. Hoadley writes from Roxbury on 3 July 1882 and references "going into Maine, to Stockton, at the head of Penobscot Bay, and then to the mountains in September." Hoadley was the daughter of John Chipman Hoadley (1818-1886) and Catherine Gansevoort Melville (1825-1905), Herman's younger sister. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile was published in book form by Putnam in 1855, and the novella Benito Cereno in The Piazza Tales, published by Dix & Edwards in 1856.
Three bound volumes, quarto (124 x 145mm). Half morocco, gilt stamped spines spine (some rubbing to extremities, front hinge of first vol. starting). Provenance: Miss Fitch (letter from Maria Gansevoort Hoadley) — binder's ticket for Francis Blake, Portland Maine.
Herman Melville, 1854-55
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Israel Potter and Benito Cereno. In Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art. Vols 4, 5, & 6. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., July 1854-July 1855.
The first appearances of two works in Putnam's Monthly, with a tipped in signature by Melville. The signature, dated 1882, is mounted to the verso of the frontispiece in the first volume. It is accompanied by an explanatory autograph letter (mounted to a flyleaf) from his niece Maria Gansevoort Hoadley (1855-1904) sending "this autograph of Uncle Herman's" to a Miss Fitch. Hoadley writes from Roxbury on 3 July 1882 and references "going into Maine, to Stockton, at the head of Penobscot Bay, and then to the mountains in September." Hoadley was the daughter of John Chipman Hoadley (1818-1886) and Catherine Gansevoort Melville (1825-1905), Herman's younger sister. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile was published in book form by Putnam in 1855, and the novella Benito Cereno in The Piazza Tales, published by Dix & Edwards in 1856.
Three bound volumes, quarto (124 x 145mm). Half morocco, gilt stamped spines spine (some rubbing to extremities, front hinge of first vol. starting). Provenance: Miss Fitch (letter from Maria Gansevoort Hoadley) — binder's ticket for Francis Blake, Portland Maine.
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Heather Weintraub
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