$764
Melville, Herman (1819-1891), Three titles in four volumes, Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands , London: John Murray, 1846, first edition, second issue, with "Pomare" line one, page nineteen, map [xviii], no terminal ads; Redburn: His First Voyage , New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849, first American edition, 390 pages, fourteen pages of ads dated October, 1849, in original embossed purple cloth, yellow glazed endpapers; Mardi: and A Voyage Hither , New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849, first American edition, in two volumes, original embossed green cloth, volume one with 365 pages, volume two with 387 pages, and eight pages of ads, all 8vo, (soiling, minor bumping, minor sun fading).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-19