Melville, Herman

估價

1,000 - 2,000 USD

招標截止

描述

ink and paper

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, the cloth unworn and without the spltting or loss at spine ends often found. Brown half-morocco case.

來源

Scott Cunningham (bookplate to pastedowns)

出版

BAL 13658

拍品資料及來源

First american edition of meville's first novel issued a few days after the rare three volume English edition.