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Post Melville Davisson
The Problem of the Five Marks": Typescript of this detective story on 16 pages approximately 5600 words. Typed at the top: "The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories - Volume III
n.p. n.d. 1 vols. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. 1 vols. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Typescript of a Melville Post Detective Story. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29376
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King Henry Melville
Sir Henry Vane Jr. Governor of Massachusetts and friend of Roger Williams and Rhode Island
Providence: Preston & Rounds Company 1909. 8vo pp. vii 2 207 4 ads 1; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good. The author was Pastor Emeritus of the First Baptist Church Providence. "Born and died in England Vane 1612-1662 came to New England in 1635 and the following year was elected governor. He returned to England in 1637 to become a leader of the Long Parliament. His interest in New England continued. He was instrumental in procuring the Rhode Island charter and his friendly efforts to aid the New England colonies were appreciated by Winthrop and Roger Williams. Soon after the restoration of the monarchy he was convicted of treason and executed" Goodspeed 198: 597. Not in Parks. <br/><br/> Preston & Rounds Company hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 56852
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Melville Herman
Moby-Dick; or the whale
Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1984. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. 12 526 2; original full blue gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 57215
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Melville Herman
Typee: a peep at Polynesian life. Woodcuts by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese
Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1979. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. xvii 1 300; original full pictorial black gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 57163
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Melville Herman
Billy Budd sailor. The piazza tales. Illustrated by Alan Price
Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1982. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. 10 3-341 1; original full green gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 57309
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Melville Herman
Typee: a peep at Polynesian life. During a four month's residence in a valley of the Marquesas. The revised edition with a sequel
New York: Wiley & Putnam; London: John Murray 1847. First edition fourth printing of the revised edition of the author's first book 2 vols. in 1 as issued 8vo pp. xiv 149 5 151-307 1 plus 9 pages of ads paged xv-xxiii; integral frontispiece map; recent quarter calf-backed marbled boards gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label in one; endpapers foxed very good; BAL 13654; Wright 1 1869. <br/><br/> Wiley & Putnam; London: John Murray hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 54633
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Landon Melville D.
Wit and Humor of the age comprising wit humor pathos ridicule satires dialects puns conundrums riddles charades jokes and magic by Mark Twain Josh Billings Robt. J. Burdett . With the philosophy of wit and humor by Melville D. Landon
Chicago: Star Publishing Company n.d. 1883. 8vo pp. 4 9-774 32 full-page illustrations in the text including the frontispiece; page of facsimile signatures; contemporary full sheep black leather labels on spine; scuffed and rubbed the rear joint partially cracked clean tear in p. 516-17; a good sound copy. See BAL 3633 listing one contribution by Twain but according to the index there are 9; other contributors listed include Robert J. Burdett BAL 1966; Bret Harte BAL 7325; also Mary Mapes Dodge James Russell Lowell Eugene Field Susan B. Anthony Poe Turgenev Uncle Remus and Oliver Wendell Holmes. BAL lists the publisher as Western Publishing House but this is a reprint likely ca. 1890. <br/><br/> Star Publishing Company, n.d. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 54927
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Bell Alexander Melville
Address to the National Association of Elocutionists
Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper selfwrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the slip and with the cover title reset to include "With the Author's Compliments." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53862
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Melville Herman
Redburn: his first voyage
New York: Harper & Bros 1849. First edition 8vo pp. xi 2 14-390; lacks the publisher's ads at the rear making it impossible to distinguish between first and second issues; this copy once rebound now disbound and the text block split in two - what is now known pejoratively as a "binding copy." At the top of the dedication page an early owner has penciled: "The best of HM's works - those of his that I have read." <br/><br/> Harper & Bros unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53838
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Bell Alexander Melville
Address to the National Association of Elocutionists
Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53863
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Bell Alexander Melville
Visible speech: the science of universal alphabetics; or self-interpreting physiological letters for the writing of all languages in one alphabet
London and NY: Simpkin Marshall & Co. etc. 1867. Inaugural i.e. first edition royal 8vo pp. 126 4 ads; 16 stereotype plates representing the invented alphabet in handwriting and longhand; the text with ample instances of Bell's invention in type; navy pebbled cloth gilt title on cover and spine spine gilt faded extremities rubbed textblock shaken and tender on account of paper quality but holding owner's signature on title page. Bell 1819-1905 the father of Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the telephone "was the leading teacher of the science of correct speech at the three capitals of England Ireland and Scotland for twenty-two years . His books on elocution remain the standard authority more than 250 editions of The Principles of Elocution and The Standard Elocutionist having been printed" DAB. His visible speech system predates the International Phonetic Alphabet by about 20 years and was his attempt at creating a system of writing that could both represent every sound produced in any language and would also be derived from the physical act of producing sound so that it could be taught to deaf students by way of the physiology of language alone. The system only saw serious use for about a dozen years before it was deemed less efficient than other methods and was abandoned by educators. <br/><br/> Simpkin, Marshall & Co. etc. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53566
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Jacobs Melville
Northwest Sahaptin texts 1
Seattle: University of Washington Press 1929. First edition issued as vol. 2 no. 6 in the publisher's Publications in Anthropology series 8vo pp. vii 1 175-244 2; frontispiece; near fine in original printed wrappers. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp inside the front wrapper. The second volume wasn't published until 1934. <br/><br/> University of Washington Press unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 52800
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Melville Herman
The works of Herman Melville
London Bombay Sydney: Constable and Co. Ltd 1922. Edition limited to 750 copies this no. 460 signed by the publisher with initials 16 volumes 8vo title pages printed in blue and black original blue cloth gilt-lettered spines; several spines unevenly sunned bookseller's description tipped to front free endpaper of volume I else near fine. BAL 13680 13682 Billy Budd and 13683 Poems. Contains the first printed appearance of Billy Budd as well as 14 other poems fragments etc. <br/><br/> Constable and Co., Ltd hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 52320
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RUVIGNY ET RAINEVAL MELVILLE HENRY MASSUE Marquis De
The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal being a roll of the living descendants . of Edward III King of England . The Isabel of Essex volume containing the descendants of Isabel Plantagenet countess of Essex and Eu; with a supplement to the three previous volumes
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack 1908. Edition ltd. to 525 copies large 8vo pp. xiii 1 684 1; title-p. in red and black frontispiece 31 genealogical tables; very good copy in decorative orig. blue cloth gilt-stamped on spine and upper cover t.e.g. <br/><br/> T. C. & E. C. Jack hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26670
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Melville Herman
Moby Dick; o La balena bianca
Torino: S.A.I.E. Editrice 1957. Large 8vo pp. 150 2; original green pictorial boards; edges and corners bumped and rubbed else mostly very good. Pressue stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson. Abridged Italian translation by Mario Giussani. Not in OCLC as of December 2013. <br/><br/> S.A.I.E. Editrice hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 44182
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Melville Herman
Moby Dick la belena bianca. Illustrazioni di Roberto Lemmi
Firenze: Bemporad-Marzocco 1960. Settima edizione large 8vo pp. 207 4; 4 color plates; original white and blue pictorial boards some minor soiling; edges a bit scuffed else very good and sound. Abridged Italian translation. This edition not in OCLC as of December 2013. <br/><br/> Bemporad-Marzocco hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 44184
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MELVILLE HERMAN
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventure in the South Seas.
New York: Harper & Bros 1847. First American edition 8vo pp. xv 1 17-389 1 xv-xxiii ads 1 16 ads; integral frontispiece map; covers spotted text lightly foxed as usual top of spine a little chipped; a good firm copy in orig. slate blindstamped cloth gilt ship stamped central on upper cover gilt-decorated spine. BAL 13656. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30176
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MELVILLE GJ. WHYTE G. J.
The Queen's maries. A romance of holyrood
London: Parker Son and Bourn 1862. First edition 2 vols; 8vo pp. 4 304; 2 254; marbled endpapers some very light foxing on prelims edges a bit rubbed else a very good set in contemporary black morocco over marbled boards marbled edges; neatly rebacked in olive morocco with red morocco label and gilt-decorated spine with raised bands. <br/><br/> Parker, Son, and Bourn hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34279
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Lane George Sherman. Bolling George Melville; Editor.
Words for Clothing in the Principal Indo-European Languages. Language Dissertations Published by the Linguistic Society of America. Supplement to Language Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Number IX September 1931.
New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation 1966. Octavo paperbound stiff light blue wrappers 44 pp. Near-Fine with slight sunning to edges. Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : qms1319
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MELVILLE HERMAN
Pierre or the ambiguities. With a preface by H.M. Tomlinson and an introduction by John Brooks Moore
New York: E.P. Dutton 1929. First edition of Pierre to contain a preface 8vo pp. xxviii 505; original orange cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine; moderate wear to extremities fading and soiling overall; a good sound copy. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30103
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MELVILLE HERMAN.
Typee. Illustrations by Mead Schaeffer
New York: Dodd Mead & Co. n.d. Sq. 8vo pp. iii-viii 4 289; inserted color title-page and frontispiece and 7 color plates; a fine but ex-library copy with small accession numbers stamped in black of jacket small rubberstamp in bottom margin of title-p. and contents-p. and with the last blank flyleaf excised. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co., n.d. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 20661
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BOLLING GEORGE MELVILLE and Edward Sapir et al.
Language. Journal of the Linguistic Society of America
Baltimore Menasha et al.: December 2004. All 8vo 80 issues in all and the property of Frederick Cassidy editor of The Dictionary of American Regional English many with his ownership signature and some with notes mostly check-marks. Includes early nos. 2-4 of volume I nos. 1 3 and 4 of vol. III and vol. 46 no. 1 through vol. 60 no. 3 complete and sporadic issues through vol. 81 no. 3. Includes the 50-year Index. Contributors include Hans Aarsleff David Ingram Dwight Bollinger. Sold on behalf of the offices of The Dictionary of American Regional English. <br/><br/> December unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26802
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MELVILLE HERMAN
White-Jacket or the world in a man-of-war
New York: A.L. Burt n.d. 1892. 8vo pp. 374; frontispiece; a good sound copy in orig. red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Reprinting of the United States Book Co. edition of 1892 the year following Melville's death under the renewed copyright by Elizabeth Melville. <br/><br/> A.L. Burt, n.d. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21192
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Melville Herman
Bartleby the scrivener a story of Wall-Street 1853
Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Edition limited to 126 copies this is one of the 100 "regular" copies the 26 "deluxe" copies have never been completed; narrow folio in sixes; pp. 6 39 7; title-p. printed in ochre and black the phrase "I would prefer not to." printed in ochre across the text pages in three successively larger sizes; printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press from polymer plates. Fine throughout in original red cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards simulating bricks. The first letter-press book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26344
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MELVILLE LEWIS
The life of William Makepeace Thackeray
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company 1899. First edition 8vo 2 volumes xi 302 6 & 345pp. 46 plates; spines faded pages partially unopened corners slightly bumped else fine in orig. red cloth gilt brown calf label on spine t.e.g. <br/><br/> Herbert S. Stone and Company hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7723
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MELVILLE HERMAN
Extract from White Jacket as contained in The Portland Transcript for Saturday May 25 1850
Folio complete issue removed from binding else very good. Nearly a column and a half of text from Chapter 92 "The Last of the Jacket." The novel was published in New York by Harpers on March 21 1850. <br/><br/> unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15940
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Whyte Melville G. J. Wood Stanley L. illus.
Tilbury Nogo. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.
London: Ward Lock & Co. n.d. ca. 1898. Reprint of the 1858 edition. Octavo gilt-stamped blue cloth uncut viii 352 pp. Plates. Very Good; endpapers are mildly foxed. Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [ca. 1898.] hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : m2360
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BISHOP John Melville & BISHOP Naomi Hawes
An Ever-Changing Place: A Year Among Snow Monkeys and Sherpas in the Himalayas
hardcover. very good/very good. b/w photo illus. 190pp. 8vo cloth-backed bds. d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster 1978. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> unknown books
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MELVILLE HERMAN.
Typee.
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924. NEW EDITION. The first edition to contain these illustrations. Significant foxing to preliminary leaves in particular the half title page with additional foxing to page edges. Cloth clean with gilt stamping on covers very bright. In a very good example of the scarce dust jacket slightly soiled with only minor edgewear. Contains eight color illustrations and color endpapers by Schaeffer. Typee was Melville's first novel inspired by the author's experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands. Originally published in 1846 in London as Narrative of a Four Month Residence Among the Natives of the Marquesa Islands; or A Peep at Polynesian Life. Typee was the Melville's most popular title during his own lifetime. <br/><br/> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29652
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CANE Melville
Tree in December
Slide Mountain Press 1929. Limited. hardcover. very good. Cane Mary. Title page decoration by Mary Cane. Thin 8vo gold-flecked purple boards with blue cloth spine; light edgewear. Slide Mountain Press 1929. A very good copy.<br/><br/> One of Sixty number copies signed by Melville Crane. Correction on the first page done in the author's own hand.<br/><br/> Slide Mountain Press unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 261030
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Borup George; Melville GW
A Tenderfoot with Peary
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1911. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1911 Hard Cover. xv 2 317 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt titles and decorations. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece 29 photographic plates comprising 46 total illustrations in text fold-out map follows text. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voyage to the North Pole by way of Greenland aboard the Roosevelt written by the youngest member of the expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2022: "Popular account of the Peary Expedition 1908-1909 by its youngest American member. Includes account of the author's participation with one of the supporting parties in the first part of the polar march and in a sledge trip along the North Greeland coast with D.B. MacMillan. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2305598
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Melville Herman 1819a1891
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither
2 volumes. xii-365 pages; xii-3878 ad pages. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" Original blind stamped plum cloth gilt title to spines Harpers gilt logo at base of spine with yellow coated end-papers in a three quarter leather in custom made half leather over marbled boards slipcase. BAL 13658 First American edition.<br /><br /><i>Mardi</i> the Polynesian word meaning "the world" is Melville's first pure fiction work while featuring fictional narrators his previous novels were heavily autobiographical. It details much like <i>Typee</i> and <i>Omoo</i> the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Unlike the first two however <i>Mardi </i>is highly philosophical and said to be the first work to show Melville's true potential. The tale begins as a simple narrative but quickly focuses upon discourse between the main characters and their interactions with the different symbolic countries they encounter. While not as cohesive or lengthy as <i>Moby-Dick</i> it shares a similar writing style as well as many of the same themes.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Plumb coloring has faded and spine sunned with gilt dulled some foxing through out corners bumped with some light rubbing previous owner's name in pencil on title else about very good in a fine slipcase. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : L0036
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MELVILLE Herman.
Moby Dick ML 119.
NY:: Modern Library. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. B073VXFKJ8 . Modern Library number 119. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Stated first Modern Library edition. Moderate shelf wear and aging previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good in dark green leatherette binding with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 566 pages . Modern Library, hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 91264
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Melville Herman
Redburn: His First Voyage
London: Richard Bentley 1849. First edition. Bound in contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards with marbled end papers and a marbled text block. Front hinge a little tender but otherwise a handsome binding. Bound with contents of both volumes up front no half-titles or title page to the second volume. Textually complete. Contemporary inscription on the title page. <br/><br/>Redburn is the story of a young man's first voyage at sea from New York to Liverpool and back and was based on Melville's own first hand experiences as a seaman on a similar voyage ten years before. The book was Melville's attempt at a more commercial sort of fiction - "a plain straightforward amusing narrative of personal experience" as he described it -- and Melville himself did not accord the book much esteem. Indeed Melville finished the work in under ten weeks and submitted the draft to his publisher with nary a rewrite. Many critics however have enjoyed the work - F.O. Matthiessen considers Redburn "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick." <br/><br/>"But the great charm of the work is its realness. It seems to be fact word for word bating a little that is melo-dramatic and exaggerated in the hero at the outset. With this exception the tale is told simply and without the least pretension; and yet within its narrow bounds are flashes of genuine humor strokes of pure pathos and real and original characters" Contemporary Review in The Boston Post. Richard Bentley unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1855
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Melville Lewis
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: A Biography Including Hitherto Uncollected Letters & Speeches & A Bibliography of 1300 Items
John Lane The Bodley Head 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With 2 Photogravure Portraits & Numerous Other Illustrations. Two volumes. London First edition. Written a decade after his first biography of William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-63 this entirely new work takes full advantage of the numerous first-hand accounts and Thackeray letters including many previously unpublished which Melville managed to collect in the intervening years. Green cloth bindings with gilt and light green stamping. A very good set. <br/><br/> John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 865685428
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Melville Herman
ISRAEL POTTER: His Fifty Years of Exile
Boston: The St. Botolph Society 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 301 p. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. First edition. Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend" Melville 1819-91 alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin and John Paul Jones and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt black and white stamping. Exceedingly faint stain to the spine heel. The dust jacket is moderately browned more so along the spine and folds with some general minor edgewear; otherwise very good. The St. Botolph Society hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63244
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Cane Melville
AND PASTURES NEW
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 244 p. A collection of verso by the American poet and lawyer who is perhaps best known for his influential book Making a Poem: An Inquiry Into the Creative Process 1953. Signed and dated by Cane on the half-title. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with silver titles. Small bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly worn with a few tape reinforcements to the verso; else very good. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62223
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MELVILLE Herman
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
Boston:: Dana Estes & Company. Very Good. 1892. Hardcover. Four black and white plates. First edition thus. Moderate edge wear and aging previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration. ; 365 pages . Dana Estes & Company, hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 69845
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Melville Herman; McCurdy Michael illus
The Lightning-Rod Man. A Story from the Piazza Tales
Minneapolis MN: The Daedalus Press 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine no DJ as issued. Tight bright and unmarred. Printed paper boards paper spine label black ink lettering grey endpages laid in portfolio with 3 numbered loose plates and pink tissueguards each signed by McCurdy. 8vo. 7pp; 25pp. Illus. b/w plates. Limited numbered edition this being II of XX in addition to the 85 copies of the standard edition. Further distinguished with penciled notation at colophon "Printer's Sample". <br/><br/>Originally printed in the Aug. 1854 issue of Putnam's Monthly it appears here with a foreword by Martin Roth Prof. of Literature at the Univ. of MN. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy who signed the work at the colophon. Additional images available upon request.Three additional numbered 20/20 original prints each signed by McCurdy. Boards are decorated by a paper collage by Eileen-Custer Toren. This Printer's Sample also includes an additional untrimmed spine label and a copy of the prospectus. Designed by Dennis Feigenbaum this is the first book of the press. The Daedalus Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7314
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Melville Herman
A Thought on Book-Binding
Westmoreland NH: H.H. Hurley 1981. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. miniature. Tight bright and unmarred. Red leather boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements frontispiece. 2 1/16x2 13/16. 14pp. One of 350 copies 24 copies on paper handmade by Henry Morris plus three copies on Morris paper with Cock & Bull Press name at title page this one of an unknown number of deluxe in gilt leather. <br/><br/>Printed letterpress. H.H. Hurley paperback books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6788
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Whyte Melville G. J.
TILBURY NOGO
London: Ward Lock. Very Good. 1858. Hardcover. London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited no date 1858. 352pp. some light foxing very light use wear to covers overall a Very Good copy. . Ward Lock hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 50674
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Melville Herman; Walcutt Charles Child
Moby-Dick
New York: Bantam Classic 2003. Reprint. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint. Spine lightly creased. 2003 Mass Market Paperback. xxvii 670 pp. Edited with an introduction by Charles Child Walcutt criticism and context by various authors follows text including the great D.H. Lawrence essay. "Moby-Dick is a novel first published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. Moby-Dick is often referred to as a Great American Novel and is considered one of the treasures of world literature. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a ferocious enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. In Moby-Dick Melville employs stylized language symbolism and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the main character's journey the concepts of class and social status good and evil and the existence of gods are all examined as Ishmael speculates upon his personal beliefs and his place in the universe. The narrator's reflections along with his descriptions of a sailor's life aboard a whaling ship are woven into the narrative along with Shakespearean literary devices such as stage directions extended soliloquies and asides. Often classified as American Romanticism Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition titled The Whale and weeks later as a single volume by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or The Whale on November 14 1851. Although the book initially received mixed reviews Moby-Dick is now considered one of the greatest novels in the English language. The story is based on the actual events around the whaleship Essex which was attacked by a sperm whale while at sea and sank. Bantam Classic unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2306336 ISBN : 0553213113 9780553213119
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Melville Herman
The Piazza Tales
New York: Dix & Edwards 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1st edition of Melville's first book of short stories the only book of stories he ever got published. Original cloth gilt sharp usually oxidized away slight wear to spine tips very good with almost no foxing surpassing for this cheaply made book. Setup first details to follow. Looking back to the American short story's roots there was Irving's Sketch Book 1819 the invention of the modern short story and the first American book that was a bestseller here and in Europe. 25 years passed while the next generation absorbed Irving's innovation then in a 100-year span came Poe's Tales 1845 Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse 1846 and after The Piazza Tales there was short fiction at the pinnacle by Twain James Crane Bierce and O. Henry then Fitzgerald Hemingway and Steinbeck but Melville touches them all. 6 tales fill the book's 431 pages. The Bell Tower is a psychological gripper of ambiguous devilry that's an advance of Edgar Poe. The Lightning-Rod Man is the shortest but it's a parable of such absorbing invention and depth that it would be a career marker if credited to any other author. The Piazza the delusions of idealism and The Encantadas sketches hellishly reimagining the Galapagos Islands are longer and just as fine. All 4 are half a century ahead of their time and more intricate than most novels but it's the 161 pages of Benito Cereno good versus evil and the 77 pages of Bartleby the Scrivener isolation that soar to the heights and stand tall at the zenith. Every word of atmosphere theme plot and characterization the 4 pillars of short fiction are fused in an unfamiliar manner that is nonetheless easily recognized as truthful seamless symmetrical and readily welcomed but it was all too late for Melville. By 1856 he couldn't believe what wasn't happening to him. He'd already decided that mind is to soul as wave is to ocean and unthreatened by failure he wrote as brilliantly as he could for as long as someone would publish him and dismissed his editor's advice to write down to his readers and enjoy a lucrative commercial career Herman never realized that money is coined liberty. But Melville's martyrdom or the ignorance of 19th century readers does not justify why in the 21st century 100 years after his rediscovery this 1st edition continues to be undervalued beyond reason. In many ways it reads like it was written 65 years ago not 165 and I can cogently argue that it is American literature's finest collection of short stories. The 1st edition that some wrongly speculate may include 3 printings was a small one 2500 copies and sales were slower than bluff erosion 1051 sold. This is ironically though repeatedly the journey of real art so it's not surprising that after one last novel a year later Melville was excommunicated from literature failed to have his prose published again in his lifetime and like so many virtuosos before him he was never rescued. Dix & Edwards hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 322
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7045
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Melville Herman
Billy Budd and Benito Cereno
New York: The Heritage Press 1965 Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Paintings by Robert Shore. Black and white cloth. Spine faded else a fine copy in slipcase. Slipcase shows just a bit of wear. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Two titles combined in a single volume. Illus. by Shore Robert. The Heritage Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2019
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Landon Melville D.
KINGS OF THE PLATFORM AND PULPIT
Chicago: The Werner Company. Very Good. 1900. Hardcover. 570 pages 10 3/4" x 7 1/4" green cloth covers with gilt stamping. The covers are slightly soiled and rubbed with bumped spine ends and cover corners. The contents are bright complete and nice. Very Good. . The Werner Company hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 67672
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Herman Melville
Moby Dick or The Whale
Mount Vernon New York: The Artist's Limited Edition 1975. Original serigraph signed by Neiman bound in as the frontispiece. With thirteen full color prints all double pages. Jacques-Yves Cousteau wrote the Preface which he also signed. Printed by The Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon. Full dark brown morocco binding by George Wieck of Moroquain in New York. Ribbon marker sewn in. Design in gold on the front cover depicting Ahab in the crow's nest with his telescope but looking up in the sky rather than searching for the whale! Slipcase covered in natural canvas with top and bottom covered in the same brown morocco. Design and typography by Bert Clarke. Paper especially made by the Curtis Paper Company. A card in a self-addressed envelope to Mount Vernon for registering the book. Number 730 of 1500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase.<br /><br />A beautiful edition with Neiman's irrepressible almost violent paintings. The Artist's Limited Edition hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16693
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Melville Herman
BENITO CERENO in Putnam's Monthly Magazine Volume VI July to December 1855
New York: Dix & Edwards 1855. SCARCE. The first appearance of this novella about a revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno appearing in the magazine in three installments on pages 353-367 459-471 and 633-644. Acknowledged as one of Melville's greatest achievements it was included with some revisions in his short story collection "The Piazza Tales" published May 1856. Very Good indeed bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards five raised bands with dark brown calf volume label in gilt title label missing marbled end papers and edges. The complete six monthly magazines with title pages well bound and lacking only the original wrappers. Moderate toning to end papers only interior pages clean and with no foxing or toning. Quite uncommon especially so in collectible condition. Basis for the 1969 French film of the same title winner of a Gold Medal at the 1969 Venice International Film Festival and the NET Playhouse television episode in 1967. American Literature Science and Art Volume VI. First Printing. Quarter Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dix & Edwards Hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008113
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Melville Herman; Kent Rockwell Illustrations
Moby Dick
New York: The Lakeside Press 1930. First Edition Thus. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus limited to 1000 copies. Three volumes in publisher's acetate jackets in aluminum slipcase. Presentation copy signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free end paper of Volume I "Inscribed with affectionate friendship to Putzie - Rockwell Kent 1950." Volumes II and III bear Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplates of Marie Luise Hinrichs. Near Fine. Narrow strips of sunning to spine cloth at ends light rubbing to cloth at extremities and light abrasions to black topstains. Pages toned and with offsetting from illustrations. Acetate wrappers are wrinkled and shrunken with age as is typical and show a bit of chipping and edge wear with some separation starting between the acetate and a paper flap on both volumes II and III; acetate on volume II with light staining. Aluminum slipcase is lightly worn bumped at top and bottom edge. A stunning presentation copy inscribed by Kent and with bookplates designed by him as well. The Lakeside Press unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140938372
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 180820009
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