MELVILLE HermanABAA
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184651836NY: Wiley & Putnam London: Murray 1846. First Printing second state. 12mo pp. 307. The text is expanded to include the story. Bound in purple cloth spine faded to a lighter color stamped in blind on the covers gilt on the spine. Lacks a small half-circle of cloth at the top of the spine little rubbed aloing the bottom otherwise a near fine copy. BAL 13654. The story of the protagonist and his friend Toby who jump ship and wander into the valley of Typee inhabited by cannibals! Wiley & Putnam | London: Murray unknown books
19302263964Random House 1930. First Thus. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Kent Rockwell. First thus. Spine and edges lightly rubbed tiny split starting along front of spine head. 1930 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxxi 822 6 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound in full red morocco with gilt title all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent throughout. A particularly sought-after edition of Melville's famous 'tale of the whale'. Random House hardcover books
1847WRCLIT56719New York & London: Harper & Brothers / John Murray 1847. Two volumes bound in one. xv13891xv- xxiii18pp. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards original printed front wrapper for first part bound in. Frontis map. Scattered foxing and occasional isolated staining early ink ownership inscription either 1847 or less likely 1897 and markings old repair in blank fore-edge of leaf 23/4; just a sound copy but well bound. First American edition of Melville's second book preceded by the London edition. This copy was originally in the format of the two volume issue in printed wrappers but with only the front wrapper of the first part preserved bound up in the 19th century as two volumes-in-one. With the previous binding in dilapidated state it was evidently quite recently rebound. BAL 13656. Harper & Brothers / John Murray hardcover books
1847263731New York: Harper & Brothers 1847. First American edition. Frontispiece chart. xv i 17-389 1; xv-xxiii i ads; 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth gilt-decorated spine upper cover with gilt vignette of ship marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends with closed tear to head of spine corners worn light foxing to text throughout. First American edition. Frontispiece chart. xv i 17-389 1; xv-xxiii i ads; 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first American edition of Melville's second novel in the publisher's cloth binding. BAL 13656 Harper & Brothers unknown books
1849261569New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1849. First American edition second printing with advertisements extended. xi i 13-390 4 ads 14 i.e. 12 ads dated October 1849 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue blindstamped cloth. Light wear to extremities some foxing to text throughout. Very good. First American edition second printing with advertisements extended. xi i 13-390 4 ads 14 i.e. 12 ads dated October 1849 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 13660; Wright Fiction 1866 Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
184917280New York: Harper & Brothers 1849. First American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind spines in blind and gilt. Spines somewhat faded neat repairs to head and foot of both volumes preliminaries slightly foxed. All in all a very good copy of Melville's third book. First American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Preceded by the English edition of the same year. BAL 13658 Harper & Brothers unknown books
1849L00362 volumes. xii-365 pages; xii-3878 ad pages. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" Original blind stamped plum cloth gilt title to spines Harpers gilt logo at base of spine with yellow coated end-papers in a three quarter leather in custom made half leather over marbled boards slipcase. BAL 13658 First American edition.<br /><br /><i>Mardi</i> the Polynesian word meaning "the world" is Melville's first pure fiction work while featuring fictional narrators his previous novels were heavily autobiographical. It details much like <i>Typee</i> and <i>Omoo</i> the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Unlike the first two however <i>Mardi </i>is highly philosophical and said to be the first work to show Melville's true potential. The tale begins as a simple narrative but quickly focuses upon discourse between the main characters and their interactions with the different symbolic countries they encounter. While not as cohesive or lengthy as <i>Moby-Dick</i> it shares a similar writing style as well as many of the same themes.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Plumb coloring has faded and spine sunned with gilt dulled some foxing through out corners bumped with some light rubbing previous owner's name in pencil on title else about very good in a fine slipcase. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
184623948New York: Wiley and Putnam 1846. First American Edition. Two volumes in one; small octavo 18.5cm.; contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards gilt-lettered spine; xv1166;4167-325pp.; integral map frontispiece. Extremities rubbed preliminaries quite foxed some soiling to textblock else About Very Good and sound. Contemporary Baltimore bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Melville's first book originally published the same year in London as Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands. BAL 13653. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
18854819New York G.P. Putnam & Co. 1885. 1885. First edition second printing. 8vo. 276 pages. Original full brown cloth gilt stamped and blind ruled spine covers stamped and bordered in blind pale yellow endpapers spine faded to tan slight rubbing. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. BAL #13667 with all second printing issue points present. Spine title: Fifty Years Exile. F. Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam & Co., 1885. hardcover books
1849WAS36166Harper & Brothers New York 1849. Good: some light stain to Volume I becoming more pronounced toward rear of volume substantial foxing to Volume II stain to rear endpaper of Volume II. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches xii 13-365; v-xii 9-387 pages publisher's blindstamped brown cloth moderate spotting to covers of Volume I light wear to tips of Volume I moderate wear to tips spine ends and joints of Volume II front free endpaper torn from Volume II First American edition. BAL 13658. Two volumes. 8-page publisher's catalogue bound at end of volume II. The bindings although both are brown publisher's cloth do not match. Volume I is in Blanck's TZ cloth with orange-yellow coated endpapers whereas Volume II is in A cloth with yellow coated endpapers. The stamping on Volume I is a simpler pattern than that on Volume II. Volume II's binding is the earlier corresponding to that described by Blanck in the "Note" contained in the entry. Stenciled in brown ink in gothic letter on the front free endpaper of Volume I is the name "Thomas Melville." Though we cannot be sure this volume could have belonged to one of the author's brothers who lived between 1830 and 1884. Harper & Brothers , New York hardcover books
1943WRCLIT85029New York: The Limited Editions Club 1943. Two volumes. Small quarto 26 x 19 cm. Publisher's black sheepskin spines lettered in gilt. Plates some in color. Tiny nick at crown of spine of first volume very slight rubbing to the spines otherwise an uncommonly nice set. The slipcase is present but neatly split at most of the joints. First printing in this format with Illustrations by Boardman Robinson and an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Copy #417 of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. The impractical binding material has seldom withstood the passage of time and has often gone the way of the sheep that died as a prelude to its manufacture. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1879WRCLIT74039Landskrona: J. L. Törnqvists Förlag 1879. xi1302pp. Octavo. 19th century three-quarter calf and pebbled cloth gilt spine label. Textblock uniformly tanned with some scattered marginal soiling or spotting edges a bit rubbed otherwise a good sound copy. First edition in Swedish of Herman Melville's first book TYPEE. OCLC locates a single copy with a Stockholm Bonniers imprint published the same year. The translation is denoted as from the original edition though by whom is unclear. OCLC's main entry for this edition calls for two pages of terminal ads which were not preserved when this copy was bound. Scarce: OCLC locates only 3 copies: Univ. of Delaware Washington State University and the State Library of New South Wales. OCLC: 13411102. J. L. Törnqvists Förlag hardcover books
1846261634London: John Murray 1846. First edition first issue p. 19 l. 1 reads "Pomarea". Map at p. xvii. iii-xvi ii 285 1 pp. terminal catalogue not present no priority given by BAL lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Rebound in contemporary blue cloth leather label. Spine faded and worn along ends and rear joint. First edition first issue p. 19 l. 1 reads "Pomarea". Map at p. xvii. iii-xvi ii 285 1 pp. terminal catalogue not present no priority given by BAL lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Melville's first work. BAL 13652 John Murray unknown books
197551853NY: Blue Moon Press 1975. First Edition. 4to pp. 4 132 4 p. Some toning to the top of some of the leaves in 35 loose folders 11.25" x 9.25" each enclosed in wrap-around folder with author and title on cover printed on Crane Artificial Parchment rag paper by Yorktown Printing Corporation Yorktown Heights August 1975 Sixty-five copies of this edition included an original lithograph; 15 of these also included an original drawing. Issued in an edition of 365 copies this an "imperfect" copy because it was issued without a box. Signed by the artist. Inscribed by the artist: "To David sic Metcalf Greetings Wallace Putnam To Herman Melville a world of thanks". Also signed on the colophon noting that this is a "HC" copy. This was actually given to Paul Metcalf writer and poet Metcalf was Herman Melville's great grandson. Rare OCLC locates just two copies. A portfolio of drawings and text responding to the novel Moby Dick. Blue Moon Press unknown books
197516693Mount Vernon New York: The Artist's Limited Edition 1975. Original serigraph signed by Neiman bound in as the frontispiece. With thirteen full color prints all double pages. Jacques-Yves Cousteau wrote the Preface which he also signed. Printed by The Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon. Full dark brown morocco binding by George Wieck of Moroquain in New York. Ribbon marker sewn in. Design in gold on the front cover depicting Ahab in the crow's nest with his telescope but looking up in the sky rather than searching for the whale! Slipcase covered in natural canvas with top and bottom covered in the same brown morocco. Design and typography by Bert Clarke. Paper especially made by the Curtis Paper Company. A card in a self-addressed envelope to Mount Vernon for registering the book. Number 730 of 1500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase.<br /><br />A beautiful edition with Neiman's irrepressible almost violent paintings. The Artist's Limited Edition hardcover books
1851140940978New York: Harper and Brothers 1851. First Edition. Near Fine. Volume III June to November. Bound in brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. A handsome volume which contains the first material from Herman Melville's Moby Dick to ever be published: the story "Town's Ho" which would later become Chapter 54. Near Fine. Cloth lightly rubbed splitting at spine joints though binding remains solid. Foxing to pages. Still a rather lovely copy. Harper and Brothers unknown books
184918126New York: Harper & Brothers 1849. 2 vols. 8vo. Original cloth covers stamped in blind spines in blind and gilt. Head and foot of volume I brown cloth chipped endpapers darkened scattered foxing; volume II purple cloth faded flyleaf and portion of front pastedown torn away rear endpapers darkened title page soiled. 2 vols. 8vo. Preceded by the English edition of the same year. BAL 13658 Harper & Brothers unknown books
10424Melville Herman. REDBURN: HIS FIRST VOYAGE. New York: Harper 1849. First edition first binding second state with 18 pages of ads October 1849 instead of 14 pp. final signature R in 12 leaves rather than 10. Original dark brown cloth gilt. Spine ends much worn gilt dull; a good solid copy. There was but a single printing of 4508 copies; by the time of the 1853 Harper fire 2433 copies had been bound in cloth and 1955 in wrappers; the 120 copies still in sheets were destroyed in the fire as well as 176 unsold bound copies. The copyright deposit copy was also a second state copy. BAL 13660. hardcover books
1846261846New York: Wiley and Putnam. London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1846. Revised edition third printing mixed state p. 101 l. 3 from bottom reading "grove" as in fourth printing. Map. pp. xiv 149 1; 4 151-307 1 blank pp. 9 pp. ads paged xv-xxiii. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Spine faded and worn at ends foxing to endleaves. Revised edition third printing mixed state p. 101 l. 3 from bottom reading "grove" as in fourth printing. Map. pp. xiv 149 1; 4 151-307 1 blank pp. 9 pp. ads paged xv-xxiii. 8vo. The revised edition of Melville's first book with the sequel "The Story of Toby" on pp. 293-307. Issued as part I in Wiley & Putnam's "Library of American Books". BAL 13654 Wiley and Putnam. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street unknown books
18522564671852. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Secretary of State Trying to Help the Disgraced Oakes Shaw. Secretary of State Edward Everett writes to Secretary of the Navy John Pendleton Kennedy on Justice Lemuel Shaw's behalf to recommend his son John Oakes Shaw for a position in the Navy. Oakes Shaw as he was known was the eldest son from his father's second marriage to Hope Savage. He became the brother-in-law of Herman Meville when the author married Justice Shaw's daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage. In fact Oakes had truly disgraced his family when in 1844 he married an "inopportunely preganant Caroline Caro Sarah Cobb."<br/>Reading in full "Mr. John O. Shaw of Boston a son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts is desirous of being appointed a pursor in the Navy. His father equally respectable as a Magistrate & a citizen desires me to speak a good word for him. I have no knowledge of the young man but I am sure the Chief Justice would not recommend him if he did not think him fully qualified for the place". Parker Herman Melville Volume 1: 1819-1851 pp. 341-343 unknown books
1846Embry 185127John Murray London: 1846. First edition. Hinges joints and two tears to spine expertly restored near fine thus in custom mylar cover. One half period black leather over marbled boards. True first of Melville's first book with the following issue points not conforming to any of Blanck's variants. Page 19 first line reads Pomarea Blanck's first issue point map appears at A8v T8 brought forward as half-title. John Murray, London: 1846. First edition. hardcover books
180732797London: Printed for J. Hatchard and J. Butterworth 1807. 5th edition Howes S-937; Sabin 91246. Period blue paper wrappers with modern rebacking to style. Modern printed paper title label to spine. Usual smattering of foxing to preliminary & terminal leaves. PO bookplates of T. A. Walker & Melville this latter who has signed his name at the top of the half-title page. A VG copy with a nice association of one who came to be at the heart of the maritime issues between the United States & Britain. 2 xxiv 1 - 124 129 - 224 221 - 252 pp. Untrimmed. 8vo: 1 A4 a - b4 B - Q4 R2 S - 2K4. 9" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>The work a defense of Britain's early 19th C. practice of searching US ships and impressment of US sailors despite the young nation's assertion of neutrality the accumulated aggravation of which eventually at least in part led to the War of 1812. Formerly owned by Melville First Lord of the Admiralty 1812 - 1827. "A diligent administrator ably balancing the pressures on him he was regarded by the navy as a thoroughly reliable representative of its interests and by his political colleagues as a man who could be ruthless when necessary." ONB. Printed for J. Hatchard and J. Butterworth unknown books
200426802Baltimore Menasha et al.: December 2004. All 8vo 80 issues in all and the property of Frederick Cassidy editor of The Dictionary of American Regional English many with his ownership signature and some with notes mostly check-marks. Includes early nos. 2-4 of volume I nos. 1 3 and 4 of vol. III and vol. 46 no. 1 through vol. 60 no. 3 complete and sporadic issues through vol. 81 no. 3. Includes the 50-year Index. Contributors include Hans Aarsleff David Ingram Dwight Bollinger. Sold on behalf of the offices of The Dictionary of American Regional English. <br/><br/> December unknown books
19959027280Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Fine Condition. One of one hundred hand numbered copies of the regular edition the deluxe edition of 26 lettered copies was never completed. Fontispiece photograph is a kallitype print on Kitikata paper. Bound in publisher's original half red cloth and paper sew-boards. Printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press in West Burke Vermont. The sew-boards binding was learned by Wilbur Schilling from Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage in East Hampton Massachusetts. Printed on Arches MBM mouldmade paper with ochre colored endpapers handmade by MacGregor & Vinzani. First letterpress book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
1924WRCLIT84976London: Constable and Co. 1924. Large octavo. Light blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt t.e.g. Spine ends a bit worn 7cm patch of offsetting at top edge of rear free endsheet neat ink name see below small spot on upper board very good. First collective edition including the first appearance of "Billy Budd Foretopman" and a number of other prose pieces in book form. Edited by Raymond Weaver. Published as volume 13 of the Standard Edition limited to 750 sets. With the ownership signature of American literature scholar Norman Holmes Pearson. BAL 13682. Constable and Co. hardcover books
