- 122
Melville, Herman
Estimate
2,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description
- ink and paper
This image includes lots 122, 125, and 126
Mardi: and a Voyage Thither. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 2 volumes. 8vo (188 x 127 mm). Publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth with gilt device and title on spine, yellow-coated endpapers; usual light scattered foxing, but gilt bright and cloth unworn and without the spltting or loss at spine ends often found. Brown half-morocco case.
Mardi: and a Voyage Thither. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 2 volumes. 8vo (188 x 127 mm). Publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth with gilt device and title on spine, yellow-coated endpapers; usual light scattered foxing, but gilt bright and cloth unworn and without the spltting or loss at spine ends often found. Brown half-morocco case.
Provenance
Scott Cunningham (bookplate to pastedowns)
Literature
BAL 13658
Catalogue Note
First american edition of meville's first novel issued a few days after the rare three volume English edition.