New York: Harper & Brothers 1847. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations and front board gilt pictorial stamping. xv 389pp pp. xv-xxiii 1p 8pp ads. Map frontispiece. Good plus. Edgeworn and ribbed with mild foxing throughout more so on preliminary leaves; 1848 ownership signature on front pastedown. A tight and decent third edition of Melville's second book quite handleable and presentable despite wear. BAL 13656. Harper & Brothers hardcover
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1943. Hardcover. Edited by Ernest Rhys. 16mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jacket. x 286pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn with small edge chips. Tight and handsome #180 of this voume in the "Everyman's Library" collection. Small pencilled ownership signature on front flyleaf of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir 1923-2013. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972. Hardcover. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Small 4to. Black cloth pictorial dust jacket. 40pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slightest of jacket edgewear. Tight attractive first trade edition with Frasconi's stark and powerful woodcuts accentuating Melville's chilling 1871 verses. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
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