Details
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.