‎Melville herman‎

‎Melville Herman‎

‎JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS . WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY HENRY CHAPIN‎

‎Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1922. Cloth and boards. First edition thus regular issue. One of 1500 of 1675 copies. Endsheets foxed with light scattered foxing in the textblock a bit of rubbing at edges very good. BAL 13725. Princeton Univ. Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT84999

‎Melville Herman‎

‎JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS . WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY HENRY CHAPIN‎

‎Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1922. Cloth and boards. First edition thus regular issue. One of 1500 of 1675 copies. Bookplate on pastedown a bit of rubbing and occasional finger smudging; very good. BAL 13725. Princeton Univ. Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71753

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎JOHN MARR; and other poems by . with a preface by Henry Chapin‎

‎Princeton: Princeton University Press 1922. First Edition. 8vo pp. 205. One of 1850 copies. Bound in cloth backed boards uncut and unopened a fine copy. BAL 13725. Princeton University Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 51860

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO LONDON AND THE CONTINENT BY.; 1849-1850‎

‎Cambridge MA: Harvard 1948. First Edition. 8vo pp. xx 189. Index. Edited by Eleanor Melville Metcalf. Orange cloth. Cover slightly faded some pencil marking o/w a VG tight copy. BAL 13695. Harvard unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 51883

‎Melville Herman‎

‎JOURNAL UP THE STRAITS OCTOBER 11 1856 - MAY 5 1857‎

‎New York: Published by The Colophon 1935. Large octavo. Marbled cloth. Portrait. Slightly cocked boards edgeworn upper 1.5" of spine covering gone taking the label but a sound internally near fine copy with superior association interest. First edition. Edited with an Introduction by Raymond Weaver. One of 650 copies printed. An excellent association copy inscribed in the hand of the recipient on the front free endsheet: "Eleanor M. Metcalf from the Colophon." The recipient was Melville's granddaughter and was for decades a touchstone for Melville studies. The manuscript Journal from which this text was derived was then in her possession. There are a couple of small pencil notes by her in the margins of the. BAL 13690. Published by The Colophon hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT85001

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎JOURNAL UP THE STRAITS.; October 11 1856: - May 5 1857 edited with an introduction by Raymond Weaver‎

‎NY: The Colophon 1935. First Edition. 8vo pp. 182. Bound in paper boards with leather label on the spine lacks the edge not affecting any print A very nice bright copy. BAL 13690 quotes Johnson as saying 650 copies were printed. The Colophon unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 51857

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1849. Three volumes. Octavo. Turn of the century three-quarter olive calf and marbled boards spines gilt extra gilt labels by Larkins. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn but a handsome very good set with the half-titles in the 2nd and 3rd volumes none called for in the first. First edition preceding the U.S. edition. One of one thousand sets printed. Apart from THE WHALE Melville's only other three volume novel and while a difficult set indeed in original cloth even sets in bindings such as that in hand are uncommon. SADLEIR EXCURSIONS p.225. BAL 13657. Richard Bentley hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71567

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Mardi: and a Voyage Hither‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Melville's third book containing the first glimpses of the rich symbolism and allegorical style that would later be more fully developed in Moby Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers 1849. Octavo original brown blind-stamped cloth. Two volumes. Provenance: with bookplates of Albert Henry Wiggin the noted book collector and famous Boston and New York banker who was considered for Time's Man of the Year for 1930 for his work during the Depression; also with attractive bookplates of Sydney Ansell Gimson and Fowler Booksellers. Very light wear at spine ends usual scattered occasional foxing pastedowns toned and foxed. Cloth very clean and gilt exceptionally bright: a beautiful copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 287

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Mardi: and A Voyage Thither‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Two volumes bound in publisher's plum cloth decorated in blind with titles in gilt on spines; yellow coated endsheets. Very Good with fading to spine and wear at spine ends and lighter so to corners. Endsheets offset or browned at centers; Previous owner name to front free endpapers of both volumes and to rear endpaper of Volume II. A rather lovely set of Melville's third book housed in a custom folding case. Harper & Brothers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 180820009

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER‎

‎New York: Harper & Bros. 1849. Two volumes. Green cloth stamped in blind and gilt yellow endsheets. Light wear and a couple small nicks to spine extremities foretips rubbed bookplate on each pastedown and a late 19th century typographic bookplate on verso of each title some foxing throughout light tidemark in upper gutter of second volume otherwise a good to very good set. First American edition of Melville's third book and first novel issued a few days after the scarce three volume London edition. BAL 13658. WRIGHT I:1860. Harper & Bros. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT69132

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Mardi: and A Voyage Thither‎

‎New 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

Bookseller reference : 17280

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MELVILLE'S BILLY BUDD . THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE NOVEL AND OF THE UNPUBLISHED SHORT STORY‎

‎Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1948. Blue cloth. Endsheets a bit tanned as usual otherwise a very good copy in lightly smudged dust jacket with a few small chips along the top edge. First edition edited by F. Barron Freeman. Includes the first publication of "Baby Budd Sailor" related and unrelated manuscript fragments as well as an authoritative text of the novella. BAL 13696. Harvard University Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT64972

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Moby Dick‎

‎Easton 1977 1977. Hardcover. Published in Connecticut by the Easton Press in 1977. Collectors Edition. Illustrated by Boardman Robinson. Book fine bound in leather with gold gilt decoration on boards and spine four raised bands and ribbon book marker. Easton, 1977 hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 004945 ISBN : 3538051461 9783538051461

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MOBY DICK ROMAN‎

‎Paris: nrf/Gallimard 1941. xxiv5362pp. Thick octavo. Printed wrapper fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Wrapper lightly tanned and minimally soiled short crack at toe of lower joint but a very good copy in later glassine. First edition in French translated by Jean Giono Lucien Jacques and Joan Smith. Copy #116 of only 100 copies printed on alfa Lafuma-Navarre from a total of 174 copies on fine papers. Giono's work as translator in company with his pacifist colleagues was accomplished contemporary with his writing of his own semi-fictional prose work MELVILLE. In the Princeton Centennial Exhibition of editions of MOBY DICK this translation was represented by a 1948 reprint. nrf/Gallimard unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT84978

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE‎

‎London: Folio Society 1974. Hardcover. Octavo 515 pages; VG; fully bound in illustrated blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; blue top fore-edge; housed in a VG- white slipcase with a crack along the bottom edge; minimal shelf wear pages clean shelved in alcove 1. 1341088. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 1341088

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎Moby Dick or The Whale‎

‎Chicago: Lakeside Press 1930. Limited. hardcover. very good. Rockwell Kent. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent with 280 woodcuts many full page. 3 volumes. 4to black cloth decoratively stamped in silver spines lightly and evenly faded and with some faint staining neatly repaired at tips; inner hinge in second volume is cracked but interior is otherwise very clean and fine with many un-opened pages. Chicago: Lakeside Press 1930. Limited edition -- one of 1000 copies printed. Very good.<br/><br/> Perhaps the finest illustrated book of the 20th century. Lacking the acetate dust wrappers and the aluminum case.<br/><br/> Lakeside Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 291284

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MOBY DICK wrapper title‎

‎Vienna: Neues Film Programm 1956. Folded leaflet 240 x 160 mm. Highly pictorial outer panels printed in shades of blue. Manuscript date on upper panel a couple of faint spots else very good. Whole number 143. An issue devoted to the German language release of the 1956 John Huston / Ray Bradbury adaptation of Melville's novel starring Gregory Peck Richard Basehart Orson Welles et al. The text incorporates credits commentary and synopsis. Neues Film Programm unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT68002

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Moby Dick. Traduit de l'Américain par Lucien Jacques Joan Smith et Jean Giono‎

‎Saint-Paul A.-M: Les Cahiers du Contadour 1939. First edition in French one of a very few copies printed. With headpiece after woodcut by Alexandre Noll and two plates. 512 4 xx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nut brown half morocco with gilt decorative paper sides spine gilt t.e.g. wrappers preserved by Devauchelle. Textblock lightly toned else fine. First edition in French one of a very few copies printed. With headpiece after woodcut by Alexandre Noll and two plates. 512 4 xx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'Je m'appelle Ishmaèl" - véritable édition originale de Moby Dick en français. The first notice of Moby Dick in French dates from the first volume of the Revue des Deux Mondes 1853 but Melville's vast novel was not translated into French until the 1930s. Jean Giono 1895-1970 was deeply influenced by American writers of the nineteenth century starting with Whitman. "The second great American Giono discovered in the 1930s was Melville . translating Melville was a labor of love - for years Giono would read him in the open fields" Edmund White. He began his translation in 1936; Joan Smith worked up a first draft that was rewritten by Giono and her friend Lucien Jacques publisher of the Cahiers du Contadour. The translation appeared in pre-publication serial form in numbers V-VIII of the Cahiers May 1938 to February 1939.<br/>The first edition was published in the first half of 1939 in a small print run variously described as only thirty copies or 600 copies here in a choice contemporary binding with the wrappers preserved. The outbreak of war put an end to the literary efforts of the Cahiers du Contadour. Giono's translation gained wider distribution in the Gallimard reprint in May 1941. Giono's fictional reflections on Melville Pour saluer Melville were also published in 1941.<br/><br/>RARE. OCLC: 459465908 BnF; 97456850 Harvard Kentucky Les Cahiers du Contadour unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 305175

‎Melville Herman‎

‎MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE‎

‎New 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

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT85029

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Moby Dick; or The Whale‎

‎Random 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

Bookseller reference : 2263964

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Moby Dick; Or The Whale.‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. First edition first issue binding with the circular Harper's device of Melville's masterpiece. Octavo original purple-brown cloth BAL's A grain covers stamped in blind with the publisher's circular device at the center within a heavy blind rule frame original orange-coated endpapers. In very good condition with some dampstaining to the cloth and interior. A completely unrestored example of this cornerstone. Initially panned by critics and readers when published in 1851 "in the 20th century Moby Dick would be rediscovered and acknowledged as possibly the greatest of all American novels" Chronology of American Literature. Arguably the greatest single work in American literature Moby-Dick was initially "a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public. Nevertheless Melville's permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby-Dick a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling" DAB. Harper & Brothers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 120575

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎MOBY DICK;; or The whale‎

‎Chicago IL: William Benton 1988. Thirtieth printing. 8vo pp. xx 420. University of Chicago Great books of the western world 48. Tan cloth with leather-grained spine. TEG. About as new. William Benton unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 52001 ISBN : 0852291639 9780852291634

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎Moby-Dick; or The Whale‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original pebble-grained red cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-embossed rules and front board publisher's device. xxiii 635pp 6pp ads. Good plus. Internally a sound "Very good" as it's internally tight and unrestored showing only mild sporadic age toning and occasional light foxing; binding is sound and decent with exposed tips; somewhat rough spine has had 1" X 1" excision archivally and discretely restored and chipped spine head and tail archivally rebuilt see images; pencilled 1852 ownership signature on inner flyleaf. A tight presentable and quite handleable first U.S. edition first issue of this giant of 19th century literature. One of only 3000 U.S. copies the American edition -- preceded by the 2-volume English version one month prior -- met with little fanfare and supposedly many unsold copies were destroyed in an 1854 warehouse fire. Original terra cotta endpapers. Despite wear this is a respectable copy appropriately priced. Housed in a handsome custom red cloth clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. BAL 13664. Harper & Brothers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 42443

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Omoo‎

‎New York: The Heritage Press 1967 Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Engravings by Reynolds Stone. Pictorial cloth lettered in silver. Slight wear to extremities more so to foot of spine. A fine copy in slipcase. Slipcase slightly faded. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Illus. by Stone Reynolds. The Heritage Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 7045

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎Omoo‎

‎Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1961. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Reynolds Stone. With a New Introduction By Van Wyck Brooks. Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone. 273 pages. Tall 8vo marbled cloth white linen slipcase a bit discolored as usual. Oxford: The Limited Editions Club 1961. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 111207