Melville, Herman

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.

BAL 13664; Sadleir, Excursions 229

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.