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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
18785Melville Herman. WHITE-JACKET; OR THE WORLD IN A MAN-OF-WAR. London: Richard Bentley 1853. 2 vols. First English edition second issue with cancel title-pages. Later three-quarter dark blue morocco raised bands gilt. This English edition is quite uncommon and like Bentley's editions of THE WHALE and REDBURN unsold copies were re-issued in 1853 with cancel title-pages. The English edition consisted of 1000 copies compared to 4524 of Harper's American printing. Fine set of Melville's highly symbolic fifth novel that depicted the harsh and inhumane treatment of sailors at sea. The last copy of the first English edition to appear at auction was December 2003 $21000 in worn cloth pages loose ex-library etc. NW-Newberry V:407-8 444-5. BAL 13662-note. hardcover books
189221192New York: A.L. Burt n.d. 1892. 8vo pp. 374; frontispiece; a good sound copy in orig. red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Reprinting of the United States Book Co. edition of 1892 the year following Melville's death under the renewed copyright by Elizabeth Melville. <br/><br/> A.L. Burt, n.d. hardcover books
1850WRCLIT72051New York & London: Harper & Brothers . London: Richard Bentley 1850. vii19-46516pp. 19th century 3/4 brown calf and marled boards. Bound without the adverts edges rubbed scattered foxing somewhat pronounced in a few places otherwise a sound set. First U.S. edition BAL's first printing. The London edition in two volumes appeared in late January; this edition followed up in March and includes an author's 'Note' dated New York March 1850. BAL 13662. WRIGHT I:1871. Harper & Brothers ... London: Richard Bentley hardcover books
1850WRCLIT72050New York & London: Harper & Brothers . London: Richard Bentley 1850. vii19-46516pp. Brown cloth sides ornately stamped in blind with frame and publisher's device spine lettered in gilt yellow coated endsheets. Crown of spine and extremities a bit frayed clean horizontal tear no loss in last text page verso blank some modest soiling to the cloth; just a good sound copy. First U.S. edition BAL's first printing first cloth binding form 'A' of the end gatherings. The London edition in two volumes appeared in late January; this edition followed up in March and includes an author's 'Note' dated New York March 1850. BAL 13662. WRIGHT I:1871. Harper & Brothers ... London: Richard Bentley hardcover books
1850WRCLIT69114New York & London: Harper & Brothers . London: Richard Bentley 1850. vii19-46516pp. Gray-green cloth sides ornately stamped in blind with frame and publisher's device spine lettered in gilt yellow coated endsheets. Usual darkening offset to coated endsheets light foxing a bit heavier in prelims and terminal leaves shallow loss at extreme crown and toe of spine neat engraved bookplate otherwise a very good copy. First U.S. edition BAL's first printing first cloth binding form 'B' of the end gatherings. The London edition in two volumes appeared in late January; this edition followed up in March and includes an author's 'Note' dated New York March 1850. BAL 13662. Harper & Brothers ... London: Richard Bentley hardcover books
185024197New York: Harper & Brothers 1850. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's slate blind-embossed "A" cloth gilt spine yellow glazed endpapers; vii8-46516adspp. Some general shelf wear with brief exposure at corners spine rather sunned and gilt faded a few signatures a bit loose else a Very Good and sound copy. Contemporary gift inscription to a Henry Frost on front free endpaper. BAL 13662. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1910865685428John Lane The Bodley Head 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With 2 Photogravure Portraits & Numerous Other Illustrations. Two volumes. London First edition. Written a decade after his first biography of William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-63 this entirely new work takes full advantage of the numerous first-hand accounts and Thackeray letters including many previously unpublished which Melville managed to collect in the intervening years. Green cloth bindings with gilt and light green stamping. A very good set. <br/><br/> John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
188354927Chicago: Star Publishing Company n.d. 1883. 8vo pp. 4 9-774 32 full-page illustrations in the text including the frontispiece; page of facsimile signatures; contemporary full sheep black leather labels on spine; scuffed and rubbed the rear joint partially cracked clean tear in p. 516-17; a good sound copy. See BAL 3633 listing one contribution by Twain but according to the index there are 9; other contributors listed include Robert J. Burdett BAL 1966; Bret Harte BAL 7325; also Mary Mapes Dodge James Russell Lowell Eugene Field Susan B. Anthony Poe Turgenev Uncle Remus and Oliver Wendell Holmes. BAL lists the publisher as Western Publishing House but this is a reprint likely ca. 1890. <br/><br/> Star Publishing Company, n.d. hardcover books
2002156580Chicago IL: Thomas McCormick Gallery 2002. First edition. Oblong softcover. 49 pages. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Barbara G. Price. Includes numerous color illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers with laid in complimentary sheet from the gallery. Thomas McCormick Gallery unknown books
1966qms1319New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation 1966. Octavo paperbound stiff light blue wrappers 44 pp. Near-Fine with slight sunning to edges. Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. 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
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
1974301209n.p. McClure Press 1974. 1974. First edition so stated. 4to. Color frontispiece and over 100 color plates by the author. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Fine. Unpaginated. Signed by the author on the half title page. Actress Rosalind Russell's copy with his blindstamp on the front free endpaper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [n.p., McClure Press, 1974]. hardcover books
186611093JNew York: Harper & Brothers June to November 1866. First Edition. Publisher’s collected volume of six months of the magazine with index. Two issues contain the first appearance in print of Herman Melville’s Civil War poems “Chattanooga†and “Gettysberg.†Modern gilt-stamped half morocco and cloth boards. Neat 19th century library stamp at head of contents page. Very good. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
