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    25 February 1998

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    Lot 135

    MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper, 1851. 8vo, original slate cloth, brown-orange endpapers, spine faded, light rubbing to joints, spine ends and corners, a little shaken, some scattered light foxing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

    Price realised

    USD 6,900

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper, 1851. 8vo, original slate cloth, brown-orange endpapers, spine faded, light rubbing to joints, spine ends and corners, a little shaken, some scattered light foxing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

    Provenance

    G. F.(?) Ball, Erie Pa., early ownership inscription on preliminary blank and first text page.

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