‎Melville herman‎

‎COPLEY WN. and Robert Melville text W. N.‎

‎W.N. Copley‎

‎London: Hanover Gallery 1963. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 17 through February 16 1963. Text by Robert Melville. Includes with the covers 8 black and white illustrations. An about good copy in stapled wrappers with creasing and some minor wear. Hanover Gallery unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 158387

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Great Short Works of Herman Melville‎

‎Harper Perennial 2004. Good. Melville Herman. Great Short Works of Herman Melville. New York NY: Harper Perennial 2004. 510pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Rubbing to edges and a little pink highlighting to one section. Harper Perennial paperback books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : UMELGRE01FP ISBN : 0060586540 9780060586546

‎Melville Herman; Leyda Jay editor‎

‎The Portable Melville‎

‎Viking 1970. Fair. Melville Herman. The Portable Melville. Leyda Jay editor. New York: Viking 1970. 746pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Fair with creased spine and front cover. Light underlining. Viking paperback books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : UMELPOR00CZC

‎CANE Melville‎

‎And Pastures New‎

‎New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1956. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 244 pages. Advance copy with publisher slip affixed to the front front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight wear. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 141865

‎Melville Pauline‎

‎Ventriloquist's Tale‎

‎Bloomsbury 1997. Fine. Melville Pauline. Ventriloquist's Tale. New York N.Y.: Bloomsbury 1997. 357pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Slight shelf wear. Bloomsbury hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : UMELVEN00JKN ISBN : 1582340099 9781582340098

‎Pauline Melville‎

‎Shape Shifter First UK Edition‎

‎London: Women's Press 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Women's Press unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76757 ISBN : 0704350513 9780704350519

‎Melville Pauline‎

‎THE VENTRILOQUIST'S TALE‎

‎London: Bloomsbury 1997. Octavo boards. First edition. The author's second book and first novel winner of the Whitbread Award for best first novel. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #160291 Bloomsbury unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 160291 ISBN : 0747531501 9780747531500

‎POST Melville Davisson‎

‎Dwellers in the Hills‎

‎New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1901. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's dark green pictorial cloth embossed in orange red black and gilt; 2vi22784adspp. Textblock a bit shaken in binding light edge wear contemporary gift inscription on early leaf else a Very Good quite brilliant copy. HANNA 2917: "The mountaineers of West Virginia." SMITH P-542. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 24283

‎POST Melville Davisson‎

‎The Man of Last Resort; or The Clients of Randolph Mason‎

‎New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1897. First Edition. Wrapper issue no priority known. Small octavo 17.25cm.; publisher's mustard yellow decorative wrappers; xv32842adspp. Some light toning to wrapper extremities minor shelf wear else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Hudson Library series. West Virginia author's second collection of short stories featuring the morally ambivalent lawyer Randolph Mason and his criminal clients. HUBIN p. 330; WRIGHT III 4355. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 24025

‎MELVILLE Herman; Henry Chapin intro‎

‎John Marr and Other Poems‎

‎Princeton: Princeton University Press 1922. First Trade Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; original brown cloth-backed boards gilt-lettered spine; 205pp. Boards a hint rubbed some foxing to preliminaries else Very Good or better. Collection of Melville's poetry published in an edition of 1675 copies. BAL 13725. Princeton University Press unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23185

‎MELVILLE Herman‎

‎Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the provisional cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet‎

‎New York: Wiley and Putnam 1846. First American Edition. Two volumes in one; small octavo 18.5cm.; contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards gilt-lettered spine; xv1166;4167-325pp.; integral map frontispiece. Extremities rubbed preliminaries quite foxed some soiling to textblock else About Very Good and sound. Contemporary Baltimore bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Melville's first book originally published the same year in London as Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands. BAL 13653. Wiley and Putnam unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23948

‎Melville Herman Hillway Tyrus‎

‎HERMAN MELVILLE‎

‎New York: Twayne Publishers 1963. Octavo pp. 176 boards. First edition. "Twayne's United States Authors Series" number 37. Short critical study with select bibliography. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some mild rubbing at edges and dust soiling. #142247 Twayne Publishers unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 142247

‎Post Melville Davisson‎

‎THE REVOLT OF THE BIRDS‎

‎New York: D. Appleton & Company 1927. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-143 144 145: blank 146: ads original decorated blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition first printing with code "1" on page 144. Horror story set in the China Sea concerning an island that is swarming with insects because the birds have been frightened away. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 630. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 177. Bleiler 1978 p. 160. Reginald 11826. Gold stamping tarnished as is usually the case else a fine copy in near fine printed dust jacket with several closed tears and associated wrinkles at bottom edge of the front panel. #107060 D. Appleton & Company unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 107060

‎Post Melville Davisson‎

‎MONSIEUR JONQUELLE PREFECT OF POLICE OF PARIS‎

‎New York London: D. Appleton and Company 1923. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-286 287 288: blank 289-290: ads original orange cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition first printing with "1" at base of text on page 287 first state with pages 62-63 transposed. "The collection of twelve stories . is in several ways next in quality to UNCLE ABNER. These stories most of which are principally concerned with the activities of a shrewd French detective are of a moderately uniform quality throughout the book. The plots with few exceptions are well contrived with paradoxical features that contribute to the suspense element and most skillfully conclude with a catchy twist or surprise ending." - Norton Melville Davisson Post p. 161. Queen The Detective Short Story p. 90. Hubin 1994 p. 652. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 P-544. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Some light dust soiling to cloth else a clean tight very good copy. #95590 D. Appleton and Company unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 95590

‎Post Melville Davisson‎

‎MONSIEUR JONQUELLE PREFECT OF POLICE OF PARIS‎

‎New York London: D. Appleton and Company 1923. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-286 287 288: blank 289-290: ads original orange cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition first printing with "1" at base of text on page 287 first state with pages 62-63 transposed. "The collection of twelve stories . is in several ways next in quality to UNCLE ABNER . These stories most of which are principally concerned with the activities of a shrewd French detective are of a moderately uniform quality throughout the book. The plots with few exceptions are well contrived with paradoxical features that contribute to the suspense element and most skillfully conclude with a catchy twist or surprise ending." - Norton Melville Davisson Post p. 161. Queen The Detective Short Story p. 90. Hubin 1994 p. 652. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 P-544. A clean tight very good copy. #9131 D. Appleton and Company unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9131

‎MELVILLE Herman 1819 1891‎

‎Moby Dick or The Whale‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 12mo. 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches. xxiii 1 635 1 6pp. Publisher's ads in the rear. Foxing. Publisher's red cloth cover bordered in blind and with central Harper & Brother's circular stamp in blind spine lettered in gilt rebacked retaining the original spine original brown/orange coated endpapers. Housed in a cloth box.<br/> <br/>Rare first American edition of arguably the greatest work in American literature.<br/> <br/>The first American edition followed the three-volume English edition by a month and contained some thirty-five passages which had been edited out of the English edition. "Melville's great book Moby Dick was a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harpers' fire destroyed the plates of all of his books and most of the copies remaining in stock only about sixty copies survived the fire . 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" Dictionary of American Biography. "Moby Dick is the great conundrum-book. Is it a profound allegory with the white whale the embodiment of moral evil or merely the finest story of the sea ever written" Grolier American. This example complete with the six pages of advertisements in the rear and in the publisher's red "A" cloth.<br/> <br/>BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57; Wright II:1701. Harper & Brothers unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36148

‎MALLEY Ern; NOLAN Sidney artist; MELVILLE Robert; LYNN Elwyn‎

‎Darkening Ecliptic The‎

‎London: Published by R. Alistair McAlpine 1974. The Greatest Literary Hoax of the Twentieth Century"<br/><br/>MALLEY Ern. NOLAN Sidney artist. The Darkening Ecliptic. Poems by Ern Malley. Paintings by Sidney Nolan Preface by Robert Melville. Introduction by Elwyn Lynn. London: Published by R. Alistair McAlpine 1974. <br/><br/>First edition. Limited to 1000 copies.<br/><br/>Folio 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 311 x 241 mm. 56 pp. Seventeen full-page Caran D'ache illustrations and numerous color drawings within the text.<br/><br/>Publisher's tan boards front cover lettered and with a deign in black spine lettered in black color pictorial paste-downs. A fine copy in the original color printed dust-jacket.<br/><br/>"Ern Malley was an Australian poet who died at the age of twenty-five in 1943. In fact he did not exist his life and poetry was a hoax. But his poems still remain haunting the imagination like a fake holy ghost." dust jacket front flap.<br/><br/>Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most famous literary hoax known as the Ern Malley hoax or the Ern Malley affair. He and his entire body of work were created in one day in 1943 by conservative writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in order to hoax members of the Angry Penguins a modernist art and literary movement centered around a journal of the same name co-edited by poet Max Harris and art patron John Reed of Heide Melbourne. Imitating the modernist poetry they despised the hoaxers deliberately created what they thought was bad verse and mailed sixteen poems to Harris under the guise of Ethel Ern Malley's surviving sister. Harris and other members of the Heide Circle fell for the hoax and enraptured by the poetry devoted the next issue of Angry Penguins to Malley hailing him as a genius. The hoax was revealed soon after resulting in a cause célèbre and the humiliation of Harris who was put on trial convicted and fined for publishing the poems on the grounds that they contained obscene content. Angry Penguins folded in 1946. In the decades that followed the hoax proved to be a significant setback for modernist poetry in Australia. Since the 1970s however the Ern Malley poems though known to be a hoax became celebrated as a successful example of surrealist poetry in their own right lauded by poets and critics such as John Ashbery Kenneth Koch and Robert Hughes. The poems of Ern Malley are now more widely read than those of his creators and the affair has inspired works by major Australian writers and artists such as Peter Carey and Sidney Nolan. American poet and anthologist David Lehman called Ern Malley "the greatest literary hoax of the twentieth century".<br/><br/>Sir Sidney Robert Nolan 1917-1992 was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history most famously Ned Kelly the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylized depiction of Kelly's armor has become an icon of Australian art. London: Published by R. Alistair McAlpine, 1974 unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 04676

‎Stacpole Captain J.; illustrated by Lieutenant WS. Melville W. S.‎

‎A Guide to Meat Inspection for Regimental Officers Compiled under directions from the Quarter-Master General‎

‎London: Harrison and Sons Ltd 1894. Octavo 52 pages. Advertisements with thirteen plates mostly chromolithographs of various whole animal and prime cuts. Second and last printing. This small military guidebook is mostly aimed at providing an outline for detecting substandard meat through inspection. The detailed chromolithograph illustrations include various sides and cuts of ox bull heifer old cow whether and ewe. A few neat ink notes to one of the black and white plates. Fine in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. OCLC locates ten copies of this printing just two in the US. Harrison and Sons, Ltd hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4511

‎Broadside Bags; FH. Melville Commission Merchant New York City F. H.‎

‎The "Perfection" Paper Bag Wrapping Paper and Twine Holder‎

‎New York: F.H. Melville Commission Merchant 1883. Broadside 29.8 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated advertisement for the "Perfection" paper bag wrapping paper and twine holder. Includes description dimensions and directions. Stamped with the name and location of "F.H. Melville Commission Merchant" the purveyor of the holder. Fold creases and small spot of discoloration otherwise fine condition. OCLC locates no copies. F.H. Melville, Commission Merchant unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3285

‎FH. Melville Paper Warehouse F. H.‎

‎Crown Satchel-Bottom and Old Style Paper Bags.‎

‎New York: F.H. Melville 1880. Tri-fold pamphlet 14 x 24.1 cm. Illustrated. Promotional brochure for a New York paper warehouse with products that serve grocers and general stores. Features descriptions and prices for available items including satchel-bottom and old-style paper bags flour sacks twines paper butter dishes spring brass tea coffee and spice scoops and more. Very fine condition. F.H. Melville unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3283

‎Melville Herman.‎

‎Redburn His First Voyage; White-Jacket or the World in a Man-of-War; Moby Dick or The Whale.‎

‎Thick 8vo. New York: The Library of America 1983. Thick 8vo 9 1436 3pp. Original blue cloth slipcase. As new. § Third printing of this edition the best edited by Tanselle and printed edition. ] The Library of America hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105401

‎Parker Hershel author; Melville Herman 1819 1891 subject‎

‎HERMAN MELVILLE : A BIOGRAPHY. VOLUME 2 1851-1891‎

‎Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2002. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine purple with yellow and black print; DJ in mylar light edgewear else clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and white cloth to boards clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; xvii 997 pages frontispiece port. illustrated b&w plates. 1342549. FP New Rockville Stock. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1342549 ISBN : 0801868920 9780801868924

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Bartleby The Scrivener A Story Of Wall-street‎

‎Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Fine Condition. One of one hundred hand numbered copies of the regular edition the deluxe edition of 26 lettered copies was never completed. Fontispiece photograph is a kallitype print on Kitikata paper. Bound in publisher's original half red cloth and paper sew-boards. Printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press in West Burke Vermont. The sew-boards binding was learned by Wilbur Schilling from Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage in East Hampton Massachusetts. Printed on Arches MBM mouldmade paper with ochre colored endpapers handmade by MacGregor & Vinzani. First letterpress book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9027280

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Moby Dick or The Whale‎

‎Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1974. Hardcover. Fine. Published exclusively for subscribers to the Franklin Library collection : The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Bound in the publisher's original black composition leather spine stamped in gilt. Five raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Franklin Library hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9026187

‎Melville Herman‎

‎Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent 1849-1850‎

‎Cambridge: Harvard University 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Price clipped dust jacket rubbed at the extremities sunned at the spine small closed tears near the head and top back edge. Edited by Eleanor Melville Metcalf. Previous owners name in ink on ffep. All pages tight and bright. <br/><br/> Harvard University hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9022237