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Melville, Herman
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
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Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851
8vo (7 3/8 x 5 in.; 188 x 127 mm). Six-page publisher's advertisement at end; scattered foxing. Publisher's drab purple-brown "A" cloth, covers with heavy-ruled frame and publisher's device in center, spine gilt-lettered, orange-coated endleaves, in a red half-morocco slipcase; five small tears in joints, a few small stains on backstrip.
8vo (7 3/8 x 5 in.; 188 x 127 mm). Six-page publisher's advertisement at end; scattered foxing. Publisher's drab purple-brown "A" cloth, covers with heavy-ruled frame and publisher's device in center, spine gilt-lettered, orange-coated endleaves, in a red half-morocco slipcase; five small tears in joints, a few small stains on backstrip.
Literature
BAL 13664; Sadleir, Excursions 229
Catalogue Note
First American Edition. First binding, with the publisher's device stamped in blind on the covers. This edition contains thirty-five passages and the "Epilogue" omitted from the English edition which preceded it.