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Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas . New York: Wiley and Putnam; London: John Murray, 1846. First American edition, original stamped cloth binding, with two pages of ads dated March, 1846 inset at back; library blind stamp on title, spine torn with loss and reglued upside down, chipped, bumped and faded; some signatures sprung. Together with: Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) A Letter Written in Reply to a Request for a Statement about his Ancestry . Stamford, CT: Overbrook, 1940.


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