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185199735New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. First edition first issue binding with the circular Harper's device of Melville's masterpiece. Octavo original purple-brown cloth BAL's A grain covers stamped in blind with the publisher's circular device at the center within a heavy blind rule frame original orange-coated endpapers. In near fine condition with some of the usual light foxing and light shelfwear to the spine tips. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A completely unrestored example of this cornerstone. A superior example. Initially panned by critics and readers when published in 1851 "in the 20th century Moby Dick would be rediscovered and acknowledged as possibly the greatest of all American novels" Chronology of American Literature. Arguably the greatest single work in American literature Moby-Dick was initially "a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public. Nevertheless Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby-Dick a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling" DAB. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
185136148New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 12mo. 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches. xxiii 1 635 1 6pp. Publisher's ads in the rear. Foxing. Publisher's red cloth cover bordered in blind and with central Harper & Brother's circular stamp in blind spine lettered in gilt rebacked retaining the original spine original brown/orange coated endpapers. Housed in a cloth box.<br/> <br/>Rare first American edition of arguably the greatest work in American literature.<br/> <br/>The first American edition followed the three-volume English edition by a month and contained some thirty-five passages which had been edited out of the English edition. "Melville's great book Moby Dick was a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harpers' fire destroyed the plates of all of his books and most of the copies remaining in stock only about sixty copies survived the fire . Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby Dick a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling" Dictionary of American Biography. "Moby Dick is the great conundrum-book. Is it a profound allegory with the white whale the embodiment of moral evil or merely the finest story of the sea ever written" Grolier American. This example complete with the six pages of advertisements in the rear and in the publisher's red "A" cloth.<br/> <br/>BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57; Wright II:1701. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1851120575New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. First edition first issue binding with the circular Harper's device of Melville's masterpiece. Octavo original purple-brown cloth BAL's A grain covers stamped in blind with the publisher's circular device at the center within a heavy blind rule frame original orange-coated endpapers. In very good condition with some dampstaining to the cloth and interior. A completely unrestored example of this cornerstone. Initially panned by critics and readers when published in 1851 "in the 20th century Moby Dick would be rediscovered and acknowledged as possibly the greatest of all American novels" Chronology of American Literature. Arguably the greatest single work in American literature Moby-Dick was initially "a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public. Nevertheless Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby-Dick a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling" DAB. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
04811San Francisco: The Arion Press 1979. A Feat of Craftsmanship Unexcelled in Modern Printing"<br/>A 'Special Presentation Copy' with an Original Pencil Drawing of 'Moby-Dick' on the Title-Page<br/>Additionally Every Illustration Signed in Pencil by Barry Moser<br/><br/>ARION PRESS. MOSER Barry illustrator. MELVILLE Herman. Moby-Dick; or The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press 1979.<br/><br/>Limited to 265 copies on Barcham Green handmade paper. This a presentation copy signed by Barry Moser on Colophon "For Ray". Additionally there is a fine pencil drawing of 'Moby-Dick' on the title-page signed by Moser.<br/><br/>Folio 15 x 10 inches; 381 x 254 mm. xv xvi blank 576 577 Epilogue 1 blank 579 Colophon 1 blank pp. <br/><br/>Typeset by Andrew Hoyem in 18 pt. Goudy Modern with Leviathan titling designed especially for this book by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Printed in black and blue on handmade Barcham Green paper bearing a whale watermark. With 100 wood-engravings by Barry Moser. Edited from the edition published by Northwestern University and the Newberry Library by Harrison Hayford Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Special copy with every illustration signed in pencil by Barry Moser.<br/><br/>Publisher's full blue morocco spine lettered in silver. Top edge trimmed others uncut as issued. A very fine copy in the original faded publisher's blue cloth cloth slipcase with printed spine label.<br/><br/>"Barry Moser's intricate boxwood engravings were intended as informative depictions of the whaling industry in general rather than Melville's story in particular thus leaving "the Pequod Ahab and Moby-Dick described only by Melville's words." In order to render his subject matter with authentic detail Moser spent many hours doing research at whaling and maritime museums in New England and San Francisco. This project marks his only collaboration with Andrew Hoyem proprietor of the Press. The sixth book issued by Arion Press Moby-Dick went into production more than ten years after Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem began planning it." Prospectus.<br/><br/>One of the most important and majestic private press books produced in America. Moser has said "Moby-Dick was the project which broke more new ground for me than any other." <br/><br/>"The printing commenced in March of 1978 and was completed in May of 1979" Colophon.<br/><br/>"Historically the two great typographical edifices of West Coast printing are the Grabhorn Leaves of Grass and the Nash Divine Comedy. Now the Arion Press Moby-Dick takes its place beside them. This constitutes a feat of craftsmanship unexcelled in modern printing." William Everson Fine Print.<br/><br/>In the 1990's The Grolier Club named this edition as one of the most beautiful books of the twentieth century.<br/><br/>Pennyroyal A Miscellany 8.<br/><br/>Arion Press 6. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979 unknown books
185142443New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original pebble-grained red cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-embossed rules and front board publisher's device. xxiii 635pp 6pp ads. Good plus. Internally a sound "Very good" as it's internally tight and unrestored showing only mild sporadic age toning and occasional light foxing; binding is sound and decent with exposed tips; somewhat rough spine has had 1" X 1" excision archivally and discretely restored and chipped spine head and tail archivally rebuilt see images; pencilled 1852 ownership signature on inner flyleaf. A tight presentable and quite handleable first U.S. edition first issue of this giant of 19th century literature. One of only 3000 U.S. copies the American edition -- preceded by the 2-volume English version one month prior -- met with little fanfare and supposedly many unsold copies were destroyed in an 1854 warehouse fire. Original terra cotta endpapers. Despite wear this is a respectable copy appropriately priced. Housed in a handsome custom red cloth clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. BAL 13664. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1930140938372New York: The Lakeside Press 1930. First Edition Thus. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus limited to 1000 copies. Three volumes in publisher's acetate jackets in aluminum slipcase. Presentation copy signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free end paper of Volume I "Inscribed with affectionate friendship to Putzie - Rockwell Kent 1950." Volumes II and III bear Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplates of Marie Luise Hinrichs. Near Fine. Narrow strips of sunning to spine cloth at ends light rubbing to cloth at extremities and light abrasions to black topstains. Pages toned and with offsetting from illustrations. Acetate wrappers are wrinkled and shrunken with age as is typical and show a bit of chipping and edge wear with some separation starting between the acetate and a paper flap on both volumes II and III; acetate on volume II with light staining. Aluminum slipcase is lightly worn bumped at top and bottom edge. A stunning presentation copy inscribed by Kent and with bookplates designed by him as well. The Lakeside Press unknown books
1851122370New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1851. First edition of Melville's masterpiece. Octavo bound in full calf by Aquarius gilt titles and tooling to the spine morocco spine label double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels gilt topstain. In near fine condition. An exceptional example of this cornerstone of American literature. Initially panned by critics and readers when published in 1851 "in the 20th century Moby Dick would be rediscovered and acknowledged as possibly the greatest of all American novels" Chronology of American Literature. Arguably the greatest single work in American literature Moby-Dick was initially "a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public. Nevertheless Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby-Dick a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling" DAB. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
192212269016 vols. London: Constable 1922-24. 16 vols. 8vo finely bound in full red hard-grain morocco extra two volumes repaired some volumes lightly rubbed along the joints but generally very good. Red morocco bookplate of Lucy Smith Battson in each volume. § A magnificent set of Melville's complete works; the first collected edition limited to 750 sets of which very few came in this de luxe binding. This is set #48. Vol. 12 includes a bibliography of the prose works by Michael Sadleir. Vol. 13 is first printing of Billy Budd. BAL 13680. Constable unknown books
1939305175Saint-Paul A.-M: Les Cahiers du Contadour 1939. First edition in French one of a very few copies printed. With headpiece after woodcut by Alexandre Noll and two plates. 512 4 xx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nut brown half morocco with gilt decorative paper sides spine gilt t.e.g. wrappers preserved by Devauchelle. Textblock lightly toned else fine. First edition in French one of a very few copies printed. With headpiece after woodcut by Alexandre Noll and two plates. 512 4 xx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'Je m'appelle Ishmaèl" - véritable édition originale de Moby Dick en français. The first notice of Moby Dick in French dates from the first volume of the Revue des Deux Mondes 1853 but Melville's vast novel was not translated into French until the 1930s. Jean Giono 1895-1970 was deeply influenced by American writers of the nineteenth century starting with Whitman. "The second great American Giono discovered in the 1930s was Melville . translating Melville was a labor of love - for years Giono would read him in the open fields" Edmund White. He began his translation in 1936; Joan Smith worked up a first draft that was rewritten by Giono and her friend Lucien Jacques publisher of the Cahiers du Contadour. The translation appeared in pre-publication serial form in numbers V-VIII of the Cahiers May 1938 to February 1939.<br/>The first edition was published in the first half of 1939 in a small print run variously described as only thirty copies or 600 copies here in a choice contemporary binding with the wrappers preserved. The outbreak of war put an end to the literary efforts of the Cahiers du Contadour. Giono's translation gained wider distribution in the Gallimard reprint in May 1941. Giono's fictional reflections on Melville Pour saluer Melville were also published in 1941.<br/><br/>RARE. OCLC: 459465908 BnF; 97456850 Harvard Kentucky Les Cahiers du Contadour unknown books
192221341London Bombay Sydney: Constable and Company Ltd 1922-1924. The Standard Edition complete. Limited to 750 sets including the first publication of one of Melville's masterworks the novella Billy Budd which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers at the time. BAL 13680 noting that the volume containing The Confidence-Man also contains a bibliography of the first editions of Melville's prose works by Michael Sadleir. BAL entries also exist for individual volumes which include first editions: Billy Budd BAL 13682 noting the contents which represent "pieces here first located in book form" including the title story which was "never before published"; Poems: Battle-Pieces John Marr and Other Sailors Timoleon and Miscellaneous Poems BAL 13683 noting that the "Author's Note" p. 162 "Miscellaneous Poems" pp. 297-349 and "At the Hostelry" pp. 351-434 first appear here in book form. Regarding the format of the Constable set BAL specifies: "LP cloth: blue. Maroon-coated endpapers. Top edges gilt." descriptions to which the present set conforms. We are not aware however of another variant printing of the set. The Standard Edition was published episodically with the inevitable consequence that complete sets are rare. Seven of the volumes in the present set are in their original dust jackets which are extremely rare and fragile having been printed on heavy acidic paper. The dust jacketed volumes include the first four volumes: Typee Omoo and Mardi Vols. III-IV and Vols. X-XII: The Piazza Tales Israel Potter and The Confidence Man. Remnants of other dust jackets chiefly inside flaps are included in a few of the other volumes. The set is in exceptionally fine condition with all hinges firm and tight and with no fading to the spines and no wear or tear. 16 volumes tall 8vo original cloth t.e.g. dust jackets. The set is in exceptionally fine condition with all hinges firm and tight and with no fading to the spines and no wear or tear. Constable and Company Ltd unknown books
1922271125London: Constable 1922. First. hardcover. fine. 16 volumes. 8vo publisher's original blue cloth with ornately blind-stamped covers and gilt-lettered spines; burgundy endpapers uncut edges top edges gilt. London: Constable & Company 1922-1924. First Collected Edition.<br/><br/> The Standard Edition limed to 750 sets signed by the publisher. Includes the first publication of Billy Budd found posthumously in Conrad's papers. A fine solid set with spines just a touch sunned.<br/><br/> Constable unknown books
1930140940351Chicago: The Lakeside Press 1930. Deluxe Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition thus limited to 1000 copies. Three volumes. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in silver lacking acetate wrappers in aluminum slipcase. Near Fine with light sunning to spines very light rubbing to cloth at covers and edges offsetting from illustrations. Near Fine aluminum case is only slightly tarnished and while it does not appear dented or pinched one volume takes a little more work to pull out. A crowning achievement of machine age book design it also helped to propel Moby Dick from semi-obscurity into its current fame as perhaps the quintessential American novel. The Lakeside Press unknown books
192267786The Best Set of Herman MelvilleÃs Works and in the Original Cloth MELVILLE Herman. The Works of Herman Melville. London: Constable and Company 1922-1924. Standard Edition. Limited to 750 numbered copies this being number 319. Sixteen octavo volumes 9 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x 150 mm. Title-pages printed in blue and black. Volume XII The Confidence-Man contains a ìBibliography of the First Editions of the Prose Works of Herman Melvilleî by Michael Sadleir. Volume XIII Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces contains the first printing of ìBilly Budd Foretopman.î Original uniform blue blindstamped cloth ruled and lettered in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt others uncut. Maroon-coated endpapers. A few spines very slightly faded as usual. Some very light rubbing to head and tails of spines. Previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns. Overall an excellent copy of this set. BAL 13680 13682 and 13683. HBS 67786. $7500 Constable and Company hardcover books
192252320London Bombay Sydney: Constable and Co. Ltd 1922. Edition limited to 750 copies this no. 460 signed by the publisher with initials 16 volumes 8vo title pages printed in blue and black original blue cloth gilt-lettered spines; several spines unevenly sunned bookseller's description tipped to front free endpaper of volume I else near fine. BAL 13680 13682 Billy Budd and 13683 Poems. Contains the first printed appearance of Billy Budd as well as 14 other poems fragments etc. <br/><br/> Constable and Co., Ltd hardcover books
19325976Etching of a Hawaiian woman. Nice virgin image never framed. Hinges to top edge. Full margined 9 3/4 x 8 inches image; 14 x 10 1/4 inches overall. books
1849WRCLIT71567London: Richard Bentley 1849. Three volumes. Octavo. Turn of the century three-quarter olive calf and marbled boards spines gilt extra gilt labels by Larkins. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn but a handsome very good set with the half-titles in the 2nd and 3rd volumes none called for in the first. First edition preceding the U.S. edition. One of one thousand sets printed. Apart from THE WHALE Melville's only other three volume novel and while a difficult set indeed in original cloth even sets in bindings such as that in hand are uncommon. SADLEIR EXCURSIONS p.225. BAL 13657. Richard Bentley hardcover books
1856322New York: Dix & Edwards 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1st edition of Melville's first book of short stories the only book of stories he ever got published. Original cloth gilt sharp usually oxidized away slight wear to spine tips very good with almost no foxing surpassing for this cheaply made book. Setup first details to follow. Looking back to the American short story's roots there was Irving's Sketch Book 1819 the invention of the modern short story and the first American book that was a bestseller here and in Europe. 25 years passed while the next generation absorbed Irving's innovation then in a 100-year span came Poe's Tales 1845 Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse 1846 and after The Piazza Tales there was short fiction at the pinnacle by Twain James Crane Bierce and O. Henry then Fitzgerald Hemingway and Steinbeck but Melville touches them all. 6 tales fill the book's 431 pages. The Bell Tower is a psychological gripper of ambiguous devilry that's an advance of Edgar Poe. The Lightning-Rod Man is the shortest but it's a parable of such absorbing invention and depth that it would be a career marker if credited to any other author. The Piazza the delusions of idealism and The Encantadas sketches hellishly reimagining the Galapagos Islands are longer and just as fine. All 4 are half a century ahead of their time and more intricate than most novels but it's the 161 pages of Benito Cereno good versus evil and the 77 pages of Bartleby the Scrivener isolation that soar to the heights and stand tall at the zenith. Every word of atmosphere theme plot and characterization the 4 pillars of short fiction are fused in an unfamiliar manner that is nonetheless easily recognized as truthful seamless symmetrical and readily welcomed but it was all too late for Melville. By 1856 he couldn't believe what wasn't happening to him. He'd already decided that mind is to soul as wave is to ocean and unthreatened by failure he wrote as brilliantly as he could for as long as someone would publish him and dismissed his editor's advice to write down to his readers and enjoy a lucrative commercial career Herman never realized that money is coined liberty. But Melville's martyrdom or the ignorance of 19th century readers does not justify why in the 21st century 100 years after his rediscovery this 1st edition continues to be undervalued beyond reason. In many ways it reads like it was written 65 years ago not 165 and I can cogently argue that it is American literature's finest collection of short stories. The 1st edition that some wrongly speculate may include 3 printings was a small one 2500 copies and sales were slower than bluff erosion 1051 sold. This is ironically though repeatedly the journey of real art so it's not surprising that after one last novel a year later Melville was excommunicated from literature failed to have his prose published again in his lifetime and like so many virtuosos before him he was never rescued. Dix & Edwards hardcover books
1853WRCLIT56707London: Richard Bentley 1853. Two volumes. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards in 19th century style gilt labels edges rough trimmed. But for some very isolated minor foxing and a few negligible marginal smudges a very good set. No half-titles are called for. First edition second issue with the cancel titles dated "1853." The original London printing which preceded the U.S. edition by two months consisted of only one thousand sets. As a consequence of their tepid sales in 1853 Bentley bound up remaining sets of sheets of this title of REDBURN and of THE WHALE in several forms of remainder cloth bindings including two-and three- volumes in one format with cancel titles bearing the new date. In the remainder format both due to the somewhat smaller quantities issued thus as well as to the exceptionally vulnerable multi-volume in one format they are much less often seen than the primary issues. BAL 13661. SADLEIR EXCURSIONS p. 227-8. Richard Bentley hardcover books
1849WRCLIT42255London: Richard Bentley 1849. Three volumes. Octavo. Mottled 18th century calf yes 18th century! neatly and sturdily rebacked at a recent date in matching calf with raised bands gilt rules contrasting red and black gilt labels new endsheets. Boards somewhat worn and darkened at edges else a very good set with the half- title in the third volume but not the second none called for in the first. The second and third volumes are largely unopened. First edition preceding the U.S. edition. One of one thousand sets printed. Apart from THE WHALE Melville's only other three volume novel. In any state even in an English provincial remboitage such as this it is uncommon. SADLEIR EXCURSIONS p.225. BAL 13657. Richard Bentley hardcover books
192239296London: Constable 1922 - 1924. Sixteen volumes various paginations. <br/><br/>This is the first and still the best collected edition of Melville's complete works. Volume XIII is the first publication of "Billy Budd" which was unknown until this time. Volume XVI includes the first publication of many of Melville's poems. The set is limited to 750 copies. Bound in publisher's cloth with slight tonal variation of the backstrips but all in very good condition. Constable hardcover books
1857WRCLIT71583New York: Dix Edwards & Co. 1857. vi394pp. Original brown cloth decorated in blind spine lettered in gilt green endsheets. Crown and toe of spine a bit frayed foretips slightly bumped with some wear a portion of the spine gilding rubbed away three minuscule pinholes in upper joint still a quite sound internally very good or better copy. First U.S. edition of the last of Melville's novels published during his life- time and one of his most uncommon. The London edition appeared almost simultaneously. It's allegorical narrative featuring a company of riverboat travelers on their way to New Orleans includes characters partaking of some personality traits of Emerson Hawthorne Thoreau and Poe. BAL 13670. WRIGHT II:1699. Dix, Edwards & Co. hardcover books
1930291284Chicago: Lakeside Press 1930. Limited. hardcover. very good. Rockwell Kent. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent with 280 woodcuts many full page. 3 volumes. 4to black cloth decoratively stamped in silver spines lightly and evenly faded and with some faint staining neatly repaired at tips; inner hinge in second volume is cracked but interior is otherwise very clean and fine with many un-opened pages. Chicago: Lakeside Press 1930. Limited edition -- one of 1000 copies printed. Very good.<br/><br/> Perhaps the finest illustrated book of the 20th century. Lacking the acetate dust wrappers and the aluminum case.<br/><br/> Lakeside Press unknown books
1846234587London: John Murray 1846. First editions of Melville's first two novels: Typee in first issue p.19 l.1 reading "Pomarea"; Omoo with signature P present on p. 209 BAL state A. Map printed on p. xviii of first work; frontispiece chart in second work. Pp. xviii 285 1 imprint; xiv 321 1 imprint. Bound without ads. 2 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century half green calf and marbled boards gilt spines by Bowron period spine labels. Front joint of Omoo a bit tender else fine. Green cloth clamshell box. First editions of Melville's first two novels: Typee in first issue p.19 l.1 reading "Pomarea"; Omoo with signature P present on p. 209 BAL state A. Map printed on p. xviii of first work; frontispiece chart in second work. Pp. xviii 285 1 imprint; xiv 321 1 imprint. Bound without ads. 2 vols. 8vo. 'Typee' & 'Omoo' in First Issue. Melville's first novel was based upon his experiences living in the Marquesas after he deserted from the whaler Acushnet in 1842. Published in England under the title Narrative of a Four Months' Residence and in America shortly thereafter Typee gained Melville an international reputation that was further cemented by Omoo. BAL 13652 & 13655; for Bowron cf. Ramsden London Bookbinders p. 41; Packer Bookbinders of Victorian London p. 21 John Murray unknown books
8985419. MELVILLE Herman. THE WORKS OF HERMAN MELVILLE. London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1922-1924. 15 of 16 volumes lacking volume 13 Blly Budd and Other Prose Pieces . The Standard Edition #324 of 750 sets numbered and signed on behalf of the publisher in Volume I. Octavos all in the publisher's original blue cloth bindings: all sides decoratively blocked in blind gilt lettering on spines maroon coated endpapers top edges trimmed and gilt others untrimmed. Title-pages printed in blue and black. Bookplate to front pastedown in nine of the volumes. Some spines faintly sunned yet attractive and near fine overall. unknown books
287New York: Harper & Brothers. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Melville's third book containing the first glimpses of the rich symbolism and allegorical style that would later be more fully developed in Moby Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers 1849. Octavo original brown blind-stamped cloth. Two volumes. Provenance: with bookplates of Albert Henry Wiggin the noted book collector and famous Boston and New York banker who was considered for Time's Man of the Year for 1930 for his work during the Depression; also with attractive bookplates of Sydney Ansell Gimson and Fowler Booksellers. Very light wear at spine ends usual scattered occasional foxing pastedowns toned and foxed. Cloth very clean and gilt exceptionally bright: a beautiful copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
