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19792311139New York: Signet 1979. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Reprint. Faint toning sticker on inner wrapper. 1979 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A short story collection from the celebrated American novelist. Signet paperback books
1961UMELBIL00mfSignet 1961. Very Good. Melville Herman. Billy Budd and Other Tales. New York: Signet 1961. 336pp. Bibliography. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Lightly rubbed. Brief notes and underlining written in pen throughout Billy Budd portion. Date and ""x"" written on first page. Signet paperback books
1964UMELPIE00HMRSignet 1964. Very Good. Melville Herman. Pierre or The Ambiguities. New York: Signet 1964. 408pp. Bibliography. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges. Former owner's name penned on first page and index entries penciled on rear pages. Signet paperback books
1981UMELWHI01afThe New American Library 1981. Very Good. Melville Herman. White Jacket. NY: The New American Library 1981. 410pp. Bibliography. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. The New American Library paperback books
1964UMELPIE00AFNew American Library 1964. Very Good. Melville Herman. Pierre or The Ambiguities. Thompson Foreword Lawrance. NY: New American Library 1964. 408pp. Bibliography. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with faint crease in front cover. New American Library paperback books
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20102267106Digireads.com 2010. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Light ink underlining. 2010 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 122 pp. "This is the final work of American author Herman Melville 1819-1891 discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and published in Raymond Weaver's 1924 edition of "The Collected Works of Melville." The emergence of what some consider to be Melville's masterpiece sparked a revived interest in the forgotten writer despite the complex and incomplete nature of the manuscript. This is the first of many attempts to piece together and refine the sometimes illegible text which included questionable additions and omissions made by Melville's wife after his death. The story stemmed from Melville's interest in an 1888 article called "The Mutiny on the Somers" concerning three sailors who in 1842 had been convicted of mutiny. Billy Budd is a navy sailor accused of mutiny by a fellow officer and immediately strikes his accuser dead followed quickly by a trial conviction and execution. The novel presents several different versions of the events organized by Weaver into twenty-six chapters including the omitted "Daniel Orme" chapter. Digireads.com paperback books
19612300163New York: Dolphin Books 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Light edge wear. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A collection of Melville's writings including Billy Budd The Piazza Bartleby Benito Cereno The Lightning Rod Man The Encantadas and The Bell Tower. Dolphin Books paperback books
19712311510New York: Bantam 1971. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Wrappers toned spine creased. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 281 pp. Four short novels in one volume: Benito Cereno; Billy Budd Foretopman; Bartleby; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles. "For many people the shorter novels of Herman Melville have been lost in the gigantic shadow of his universally recognized masterpiece Moby Dick. Yet the short novels in this volume written after his popularity had begun to wane actually represent the peak of Melville's artistic development. The compelling story line the profound symbolism the brilliant character delineation are all in evidence and there is a tightness and precision in these stories of which the author had not been capable before. Billy Budd the last of Melville's works is considered by many scholars to be his greatest. Bantam paperback books
1966UMELGRE00JKNHarper 1966. Good. Melville Herman. Great Short Works of Herman Melville. New York: Harper 1966. 510pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. General shelf wear. Edges bumped and corners worn. Price blacked out on front cover. Harper paperback books
1964UMELPIE00fpSignet Classics 1964. Very Good. Melville Herman. Pierre or The Ambiguities. New York NY: Signet Classics 1964. xxi 405pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and former owner's name in ink on top of first page. Penciled notes on the top and bottom of last few pages. Signet Classics paperback books
1981UMELTYP00HMRPenguin 1981. Very Good. Melville Herman. Typee. Middlesex England: Penguin 1981. 367pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with faintly yellowed cover lightly rubbed edges and publisher's label affixed to rear cover. Penguin paperback books
20032306336New York: Bantam Classic 2003. Reprint. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint. Spine lightly creased. 2003 Mass Market Paperback. xxvii 670 pp. Edited with an introduction by Charles Child Walcutt criticism and context by various authors follows text including the great D.H. Lawrence essay. "Moby-Dick is a novel first published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. Moby-Dick is often referred to as a Great American Novel and is considered one of the treasures of world literature. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a ferocious enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. In Moby-Dick Melville employs stylized language symbolism and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the main character's journey the concepts of class and social status good and evil and the existence of gods are all examined as Ishmael speculates upon his personal beliefs and his place in the universe. The narrator's reflections along with his descriptions of a sailor's life aboard a whaling ship are woven into the narrative along with Shakespearean literary devices such as stage directions extended soliloquies and asides. Often classified as American Romanticism Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition titled The Whale and weeks later as a single volume by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or The Whale on November 14 1851. Although the book initially received mixed reviews Moby-Dick is now considered one of the greatest novels in the English language. The story is based on the actual events around the whaleship Essex which was attacked by a sperm whale while at sea and sank. Bantam Classic unknown books
1986SKU1035702Penguin Classics 1986-04-01. PAPERBACK. Good. 0140390537 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Penguin Classics paperback books
2004UMELGRE01FPHarper Perennial 2004. Good. Melville Herman. Great Short Works of Herman Melville. New York NY: Harper Perennial 2004. 510pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Rubbing to edges and a little pink highlighting to one section. Harper Perennial paperback books
UMELBIL00TMPenguin. Very Good. Melville Herman. Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories. Busch Frederick. New York: Penguin ND. 385pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and rubbing. A few small creases. Penguin paperback books
1957UMELHER00AGGRinehart & Co 1957. Very Good. Melville Herman. Herman Melville: Selected Tales and Poems. Chase editor Richard. NY: Rinehart & Co 1957. 417pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Rinehart & Co paperback books
1961UMELSEL00AFHolt Rinehart and Winston 1961. Very Good. Melville Herman. Selected Tales & Poems. Chase Editor Richard. NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1961. 417pp. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with tiny price marked out on front cover. Holt, Rinehart and Winston paperback books
19762281603Penguin 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Wrappers rubbed. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. Contains the full text of Typee Billy Budd and Bartleby as well as selections from his novels and poetry. Penguin paperback books
1970UMELPOR00CZCViking 1970. Fair. Melville Herman. The Portable Melville. Leyda Jay editor. New York: Viking 1970. 746pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Fair with creased spine and front cover. Light underlining. Viking paperback books
19962276222Quality Paperback Book Club 1996. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ink name and number on quote page a few minor spots to top page ridge. 1996 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xi 504 pp. "Based on Melville's experiences as a common seaman aboard the frigate USS United States from 1843 to 1844 and stories that other sailors told him the novel is severely critical of virtually every aspect of American naval life and thus qualifies as Melville's most politically strident work. At the time though the one thing that journalists and politicians focused on in the novel was its graphic descriptions of flogging and the horrors caused by its arbitrary use; in fact because Harper & Bros. made sure the book got into the hands of every member of Congress White-Jacket was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the U.S. Navy forever. Melville scholars also acknowledge the huge number of parallels between White-Jacket and Billy Budd and view the former as a rich source for possible interpretations of the latter. The symbolism of the color white introduced in this novel in the form of the narrator's jacket is more fully expanded upon in Moby-Dick where it becomes an all-encompassing "blankness." The mixture of journalism history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature Quality Paperback Book Club paperback books
1996UMELWHI00AFQPB 1996. Very Good. Melville Hermann. White Jacket. NY: QPB 1996. 504pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with faintly soiled top edge of text block. QPB paperback books
1967UMELCON00AFBobbs-Merrill 1967. Good. Melville Herman. The Confidence-Man His Masquerade. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1967. 354pp. 8vo. Mass Market. Book condition: Good with extensive underlining bracketing and marginalia. Faded and lightly rubbed wraps. Bobbs-Merrill paperback books
1996UMELTYP01fpPenguin Books 1996. Very Good. Melville Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. New York NY: Penguin Books 1996. xxxvii 325pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Penguin Books paperback books
20172304151New York: Dover 2017. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Rear wrapper faintly rubbed. 2017 Trade Paperback. First published in 1918 Dover paperback books
