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Melville, Herman (1819-1891) The Works , Standard Edition. London/Bombay/Sydney: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922. Sixteen octavo volumes, limited edition, number 463 of 750 copies; uniformly bound in publisher's blue cloth, t.e.g., boards blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt, aubergine endleaves, some spines slightly faded, the spine of White Jacket slight torn, generally good, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (16) This edition of Melville's works contains the first publication of Billy Budd , and many poems.


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2014-05-31

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Melville, Herman (1819-1891), Omoo; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas , New York: 1847, first American edition, original gilt pictorial and stamped Read more…


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New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1851. 8vo, publisher's drab brown cloth with an arabesque design in blind, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers. Thomas Melville copy, Read more…


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