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Melville Herman; Kent Rockwell Illustrator
Moby Dick; or the Whale
New York: Random House 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in silver. Near Fine with the silver stamping very sharp and bright; bump to bottom corner of front boards pages toned rear endsheet soiled. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning to the spine and chipping to the spine ends with short splits starting at the joints rubbing to flap folds with several tape reinforcements made to the verso. A lovely example of Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent with bright silver stamping and in a descent dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 180803002
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Shavelson Melville
Lualda
New York: Arbor House. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. c.1975. First Edition. Hardcover. nice clean copy with just the teensiest bit of shelfwear; the jacket is similarly nice with only some minimal wear along the top edge light surface-scratching to the rear panel. A Hollywood novel of sorts set in both Rome and California about the love affair between a beautiful Italian film star and a "somewhat balding" middle-aged Jewish American screenwriter. This was the first of just two novels by Shavelson himself a noted screenwriter/director who served three non-consecutive terms as president of the Writers Guild of America-west. Among his films as a director were two starring Sophia Loren -- HOUSEBOAT 1958 and IT STARTED IN NAPLES 1960 -- and it seems conceivable that the novel's titular character may have been somewhat modeled on or inspired by Loren. . Arbor House hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 26842
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Melville Herman
Omoo: A narrative of adventures in the South seas
New York: Harper & Bros 1855. 6th Edition. Hardcover. VG Cover has fading coner and edge damage. Bookblock has age toning and foxing. Inerior pages have age toning and foxing. Brown decorative cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. xv 17-389 pages map. Sequel to Typee. Harper & Bros hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 184742
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Melville Herman
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature
Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Raphael Elaine; Bolognese Don. Edges faintly foxed otherwise an excellent copy. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 299 1 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather with orange accents gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Woodcut illustrations by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. "Typee 1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva which Melville spelled as Nukuheva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands and the title comes from a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; for 19th century readers his career seemed to go downhill afterward but during the early 20th century it was seen as just the beginning of a career that peaked with Moby-Dick 1851. The Franklin Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2307090
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Melville Herman
BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER. A Story of Wall-Street.
New York NY: Kallemeyn Press 1989. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 40 pages of text. One of 20 deluxe copies bound in leather by Christian Zwang of Hamburg Germany. The full leather binding is minimally shelfworn. Includes a custom clamshell box the leather spine of which is somewhat sunned/browned with minor shelfwear. Contains 4 color prints each of which is protected with a tissue guard. There was an additional 50 copies printed that were not bound in leather. The paper has minor spotting which is inherent in the manufacture of the paper. The text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Measures 11.75 inches height. First edition. Kallemeyn Press Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 019012
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Melville Robert
New Sculpture by Jann Haworth
NY: Sidney Janis 1971. Paperback. Very good. 16pp. Light rubbing overall else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/>exc h Sidney Janis paperback books
Bookseller reference : 36312
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Melville Herman
Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; the Revised Edition with a Sequel
New York: Harper & Brothers 1852. Very Good. octavo 3079 pages; original blind stamped green cloth spine lettered in gilt; map frontis. Revised to include "The Story of Toby." Very light occasional foxing neat owner name on FEP. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 08883
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MELVILLE James
Memoirs of His Own Life: Sir James Melville of Halhill 1549-1593
Edinburgh 1827. hardcover. very good. Large paper edition thick 4to 3/4 red calf rubbed. Edinburgh 1827. Very good.<br/><br/> Maitland Club Edition.<br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 75846
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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
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Cane Melville; John Farrar; Louise Townsend Nicholl
THE GOLDEN YEAR. The Poetry Society of America Anthology 1910-1960.
New York: Fine Editions Press 1960. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xxvi 368 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor soiling to rear panel and minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Numerous instances of reviewer's red pencil notations and underlining scattered throughout text. Fine Editions Press Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 010744
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Sutherland Graham; introduction by Robert Melville
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND
London: The Ambassador Editions. Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. 14.25x11 inches. Tan cloth with black printing. The spine ends and corners are bumped and scuffed. The front hinge is tender with magazine articles laid in and pasted on the front pastedown. A four page exhibition pamphlet is pasted in at the rear pastedown. The contents are great and complete. A Near Very Good copy. . The Ambassador Editions hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 65774
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Melville Herman; Kent Rockwell Illustrator
Moby Dick
New York: Random House 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Near Fine with bump to top corner of boards pages toned. Silver stamping rather bright and fresh with just a hint of rubbing. Dust jacket with spine toned a bit of chipping and loss rubbed at folds with tape and mending tissue repairs made from the verso with the front flap formerly completely detached and mended else Very Good. A lovely example of Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent uncommon with bright silver stamping and in the dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 171127003
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Whyte Melville G. J.
RIDING RECOLLECTIONS
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. Very Good. 1879. Hardcover. Riding recollections /G J Whyte-Melville 1879 Copyright ed.English Book Book 296 p. ; 16 cm.Leipzig : B. Tauchnitz 1879.6 1/4" X 4 1/2" in a publisher's pebble morocco with gilt ruling and beveled edges.Few scuffs and handling wear a bit warped but fairly nice condition - complete and clean internally.With the signature of Blanch Willis Howard on the half title page. . Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 72850
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Melville Herman
Moby Dick
Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library Full sea-blue leather heavily decorated in gilt. AEG. Rockwell Kent vignettes from the Random House edition throughout book. Two full color double page plates at "beginning" of book from previous editions. A splendid production by the Franklin Library. The book is in the Japanese language. First Thus. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rockwell Kent. 8vo. Trade. Franklin Library Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : MSST1
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Post Melville Davisson
Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries
New York: Dover 2017. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Rear wrapper faintly rubbed. 2017 Trade Paperback. First published in 1918 Dover paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2304151 ISBN : 048681744X 9780486817446
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Herman Melville
Moby Dick; Or the White Whale
Boston: Dana Estes and Company. Collectible - Acceptable. Boston: Dana Estes and Company 1892. 5.75x8" Blue cloth hardcover with silver lettering and light blue and white illustration on front cover and spine.545pp. Includes B&W frontis. No dust jacket. Cover corners worn spine ends torn. Front end page and half title page detached. Front paste down torn along hinge. Owner's name inside. Boston: Dana Estes and Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : S2513
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Melville Herman
White Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War
Quality Paperback Book Club 1996. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ink name and number on quote page a few minor spots to top page ridge. 1996 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xi 504 pp. "Based on Melville's experiences as a common seaman aboard the frigate USS United States from 1843 to 1844 and stories that other sailors told him the novel is severely critical of virtually every aspect of American naval life and thus qualifies as Melville's most politically strident work. At the time though the one thing that journalists and politicians focused on in the novel was its graphic descriptions of flogging and the horrors caused by its arbitrary use; in fact because Harper & Bros. made sure the book got into the hands of every member of Congress White-Jacket was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the U.S. Navy forever. Melville scholars also acknowledge the huge number of parallels between White-Jacket and Billy Budd and view the former as a rich source for possible interpretations of the latter. The symbolism of the color white introduced in this novel in the form of the narrator's jacket is more fully expanded upon in Moby-Dick where it becomes an all-encompassing "blankness." The mixture of journalism history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature Quality Paperback Book Club paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2276222
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Melville Herman
TYPEE
West Virginia: West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Leather spine with gilt printing with pictorial paper covered boards. The covers show some light discoloration otherwise this is a clean nice copy. Very Good in a slightly soiled but nice slipcase. . West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 68559
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Melville Lewis
The Star of Piccadilly a Memoir of William Douglas Fourth Duke of Queensberry K. T. 1725-1810
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Blue library cloth; some wear little soiling; ex library with usual marks; plates stamped in corners by library; contents clean and complete . . Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13100
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Melville Elizabeth H.; A Lady; Mrs. Norton
A RESIDENCE AT SIERRA LEONE. Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot and from Letters Written to Friends at Home.
London: John Murray 1849. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 335 pages of text. Newly rebound with a full leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murray Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 019049
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MELVILLE Herman.
Omoo.
NY:: Dodd Mead and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. B0006AJFSM . Eight color plates. First edition thus. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few small chips price clipped dust jacket.; 299 pages . Dodd, Mead and Company, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 87995
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Cane Melville Henry. Drawings by Will Hunt Schanck
The Columbia A.B. ABS. A Pictorial Primer Of Things Light Blue and White
New York: W. S. Sterling & Co. 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Cloth spine. . Very Good. Clever Columbiana an ABC for the college student and alum capturing college life there in the early days of the Morningside Heights campus -- this was written shortly after the university had moved from Midtown. Oblong 4to 21 by 29 cm. Unpaginated but 30 pages including title page. Illustrations on every page. A light dampstain affects every page but given the good paper quality the dampstain we believe is not especially obtrusive. Soiling on the cloth spine. <br/><br/> W. S. Sterling & Co. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 005290
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MELVILLE Herman.
Moby Dick or The White Whale.
London:: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. B0000CIMYH . Number 581 in the Collins New Classics series. Introduction by J. N Sullivan. First edition thus. Very good blue cloth binding in a very good two short closed edge tears small chip at the base of the spine age toning along the spine dust jacket.; 480 pages . Collins, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 94047
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MELVILLE Keith
Communes in the Counter Culture: Origins Theories Styles of Life
NY:: William Morrow. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. Book club edition. Very good in a very good some foxing along the spine and flaps dust jacket. . William Morrow, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 62099
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Melville Herman
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales
New York: Dolphin Books 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Light edge wear. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A collection of Melville's writings including Billy Budd The Piazza Bartleby Benito Cereno The Lightning Rod Man The Encantadas and The Bell Tower. Dolphin Books paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2300163
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Melville Herman
Billy Budd
Digireads.com 2010. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Light ink underlining. 2010 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 122 pp. "This is the final work of American author Herman Melville 1819-1891 discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and published in Raymond Weaver's 1924 edition of "The Collected Works of Melville." The emergence of what some consider to be Melville's masterpiece sparked a revived interest in the forgotten writer despite the complex and incomplete nature of the manuscript. This is the first of many attempts to piece together and refine the sometimes illegible text which included questionable additions and omissions made by Melville's wife after his death. The story stemmed from Melville's interest in an 1888 article called "The Mutiny on the Somers" concerning three sailors who in 1842 had been convicted of mutiny. Billy Budd is a navy sailor accused of mutiny by a fellow officer and immediately strikes his accuser dead followed quickly by a trial conviction and execution. The novel presents several different versions of the events organized by Weaver into twenty-six chapters including the omitted "Daniel Orme" chapter. Digireads.com paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2267106 ISBN : 1420938290 9781420938296
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Hilton Simpson MW. Melville William M. W.
Among the Hill-Folk of Algeria Journeys Amoung the Shawia of the Aures Mountains
New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp with 40 illustrations and a map of the Aures. Original green cloth bumped at the corners; binding tight and square contents clean. No dust jacket. Account of three winters the author and his wife spent in the remote hill country of Algeria collecting specimens of Berber handicraft for the Pitt-Rivers Museum Oxford. Dodd, Mead and Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13256
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Melville Herman; Forsythe Robert S
Pierre or the Ambiguities Americana Deserta Series
Alfred A. Knopf 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Spine lightly toned and slightly cocked pencil notes on front free endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. xxxviii 416 pp. "When Pierre Glendinning's lifelong desire for a sister is seemingly realized on the eve of his marriage his world is suddenly turned upside down for he must choose between acknowledging his illegitimate half-sister or perpetuating his unsullied family legacy. Melville unfolds the story of an idealistic young man whose steadfast beliefs lead him to destroy his world and himself. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2298289
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Melville Herman
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas A Sequel to "Typee
D.D. Nickerson Co 1892. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Austin Henry; Shute A. Burham. No jacket. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base boards very lightly soiled. 1892 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii 365 pp. Frontispiece by Henry Austin; 4 plates by A. Burham Shute. "Following the commercial and critical success of Typee Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover or someone who roams from island to island Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville D.D. Nickerson Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2298291
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Melville Herman
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
New York: Harper & Brothers 1849 Two volumes. First American edition. Original publisher's blue-green blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spines. A very good or better set with some light wear some toning to spine scattered spotting and small stains to cloth former owner ink signature to first blank of volume II usual scattered foxing to text. Overall a very attractive and tight copy without any repair or restoration. Much nicer than usually found. BAL 13658. Mardi is Herman Meville's third book and marks a departure from his first two works Typee 1846 and Omoo 1847 which are more autobiographical in nature. Mardi begins like Melville's preceding novels with a fictional South Seas whaling adventure story but quickly changes into a more allegorical and experimental text when the main characters abandon their vessel and travel to a variety of fictional symbolic countries. Melville's use of poetry and song also makes this text unique. While it was heavily criticized upon publication Mardi is best understood within the greater context of his entire body of writing. Rather than continue to produce variations of his first two successful novels Melville pushed himself to improve on his own writing and while perhaps not fully recognized in Mardi this laid the groundwork for his later novels including White-Jacket 1850 and Moby Dick 1851. This first American edition published April 14 1849 was preceded only by the three volume first British edition published on March 16th of the same year. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. New York: Harper & Brothers hardcover books
Bookseller reference : HM039
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Surrealism Ford Charles Henri Editor Donald Windham Robert Melville Paul Goodman Edith Sitwell et al Contributors
View Magazine May 1946 Issue
New York: View 1946. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. The May 1946 issue of this magazine devoted to all things Surrealism. Edited by Ford and assisted by Parker Tyler John Myers Paul Bowles Aaron Copland Marcel Duchamp and others. A good to very good copy in tall side-stapled wrappers. Typical light soiling and wear to covers. Cover art by Jean Helion. View paperback books
Bookseller reference : 25543
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Osborne Melville Ellsworth
Broadside An Oriental Drama. Something New. Neither a Lecture Nor an Address. Melville Ellsworth Osborne S. T. B. Representing Committee on Conservation and Advance. Play Writer - Traveler - Lecturer - Evangelist - Soloist - Actor. Twenty-five Years' Thrilling Experiences Himalayan Mountains. Specialties -- Weird Indian Songs - Fascinating Instrumental Music -- Fifty Gorgeous Costumed Characters -- Caste System Exposed -- Hindu Customs Vividly Portrayed -- Mass Movement Scenes -- Religious Victory Yells . . .
NA. Very Good. Promotion for a seemingly versatile performance artist before there was such a term! N.d. probably 1923 or otherwise 1917. 46 by 32 cm. Back when lectures were like today's performance art. Osborne would appear to have worked the church lecture circuit. Here written in ink at the bottom is scrawled that the performance was going to be at the Methodist Church on Tuesday July 24th. Since there are records of Osborne touring in the early 1920s we presume the date of this performance would have been 1923 in which year July 24th did fall on a Tuesday. Otherwise 1917 would be our next bet. Osborne was the son of missionaries and it would seem he would capitalize on his exposure to Indian culture to create this roadshow of his. <br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 005274
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Herskovits Melville J.
THE ANTHROPOMETRY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO
New York: Columbis University Press. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. NY: Columbia University Press 1930. 283 pages hardbound. A good sound copy with heavy rubbing and rippling to the brown cloth binding. Best suited for reading or reference. . Columbis University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 48131
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Herman Melville
Mardi & a Voyage Thither 1ST Edition Us 2vol
HARPER & BROS. Collectible - Acceptable. 1849 1st US same date on tp and cp. Ex-library. White library titling to spines bookplates to pastedowns pockets at rear. Brown embossed cloth. One volume has a green cloth spine cover and the other has red probably put on by library. Covers are quite edgeworn covers rubbed. Foxing and light waterstains throughout both. Hinges cracked in many places but binding still good. No dust jackets. HARPER & BROS hardcover books
Bookseller reference : B23494-F
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Melville Herman; Parker Hershel Editor; Hayford Harrison Editor;
Moby-Dick Norton Critical Editions
W. W. Norton & Company 1999-07-27. Second. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Cover different from pictured. Very light wear. TP HS W. W. Norton & Company paperback books
Bookseller reference : 192834 ISBN : 0393972836 9780393972832
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Melville Herman
BENITO CERENO .
Barre MA: The Imprint Society 1972. Quarto. Quarter calf and gilt decorated cloth. Illustrations. Light rubbing at crown and toe of spine otherwise fine in slipcase. First edition in this format illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. With Foreword and Afterword by Lawrance Thompson and selections from a related work by Amasa Delano "With Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal at the Island of St. Maria and the Documents Relating to that Affair." From a total of 1950 copies signed by the artist this is one of the copies distributed without a number when the backlist of the publisher was remaindered. The Imprint Society hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT85120
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Melville Herman; Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
MOBY DICK or The White Whale
New York: Dodd Mead 1942. Very Good gilt title at spine uniformly dulled end papers with light toning in a Very God dust jacket light wear at spine ends and corners light soiling. With 10 color plates by Schaeffer. . First Illustrated Classics Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Tall 8vo. Dodd Mead Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008712
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MELVILLE Herman.
Piazza Tales.
NY:: Hendricks House. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. B003113FJI . Edited by Egbert S. Oliver. A reprint edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else very good in blue cloth. No dust jacket. . Hendricks House, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 86228
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Melville Herman
Redburn: His First Voyage
London: Constable and Company 1922. Very Good lacking the scarce dust jacket in blue cloth with gilt titles at spine. Gilt top edge a bit dulled cloth rubbed at the tips light foxing to end pages. Volume V in Constable's well-regarded "The Works of Herman Melville" a 16 volume limited set and the first collected works of Melville to be published after his death in 1891. . First EditionThus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Constable and Company Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 005133
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Melville Herman; with an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin
John Marr and Other Poems
Princeton N.J.: Princeton Univ Press 1922. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Henry Chapin to noted book collector Lewis Vogler - "Henry Chapin for Lewis Vogler in a sort of second hand way July 1973". First Edition one of 1675 unnumbered copies Brown cloth spine over gray boards gilt lettering. The first edition of this book "John Marr and Some Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces" appeared anonymously in 1888 printed in an edition of only 25 copies making this edition in effect the first trade edition. Near Fine no slipcase small nick to paper boards at top edge. BAL 13725 . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. Limited First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Princeton Univ Press Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 007614
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Melville Herman; Kent Rockwell Illustrator
Moby Dick
New York: Random House 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Very Good with bumping to edges and corners and pages toned. In a Good dust jacket with a strip of abrasion to the front panel affecting the title chipping edge wear and toning. Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent uncommon with bright silver stamping and in the dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 180902005
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Melville Herman
BENITO CERENO
London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Folio. Cloth. Spine sunned ink name partially erased from front pastedown cloth a bit rubbed but a good sound copy. First edition in this format. Illustrated with stencil-colored drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Copy #9 of 1650 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT85105
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Melville Herman
TYPEE A REAL ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS . WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION .
New York: United States Book Company 1892. xxxvi389pp. plus portrait and plate. Blue gray pictorial cloth stamped in black and brown. Armorial bookplate of Robert Henry Herbert "Ung Je Serviray" with clipped manuscript gift inscription affixed below illegible small nicks and frays at spine ends two blank lower fore-corners neatly clipped but a good sound copy. The first posthumous printing of the text one of four of Melville's proseworks prepared for reprinting by the United States Book Company by Arthur Stedman and of those four the only one to include an Introduction by Stedman. Melville authority Merton Sealts has called the Introduction "the best short Life of Melville written in the nineteenth century." Stedman commissioned La Farge's imaginative depiction of Fayaway which appears before the first page of text. The four titles appeared in several different colors of cloth. OMOO and TYPEE shared the same cover illustration. These editions are not uncommon but they are difficult to find in agreeable edition. United States Book Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT85106
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Melville Herman: Duyckinck Evert Augustus and later: CF. Hoffman editors C. F.
THE LITERARY WORLD. A JOURNAL OF SCIENCE LITERATURE AND ART. VOLUME V.
New York: E. A. & G. Duyckinck 1849. 4576pp. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Terminal index leaf from final issue bound up front as intended. Extremities a bit rubbed extreme upper foretip of text block nibbled otherwise a very good volume. The publisher's bound volume for whole numbers 127- 152 7 July through 29 December 1849. Contemporary with its New York publication on triple-column pages 395-7 10 November issue appears a significant selection from Melville's REDBURN and on triple column pages 418-20 17 November issue appears a lengthy review made up largely of excerpts from the text. Duyckinck and his brother George were influential tastemakers in the mid-19th century world of writing and publishing in the U. S. and Evert and Melville were close friends. In these pages Melville is christened the "De Foe sic of the Ocean." In the years 1845-6 Evert served as an editor for Wiley & Putnam's LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BOOKS wherein Melville's TYPEE made its North American appearance. E. A. & G. Duyckinck hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT85104
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Melville Herman
Four Short Novels: Benito Cereno; Billy Budd Foretopman; Bartleby; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
New York: Bantam 1971. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Wrappers toned spine creased. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 281 pp. Four short novels in one volume: Benito Cereno; Billy Budd Foretopman; Bartleby; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles. "For many people the shorter novels of Herman Melville have been lost in the gigantic shadow of his universally recognized masterpiece Moby Dick. Yet the short novels in this volume written after his popularity had begun to wane actually represent the peak of Melville's artistic development. The compelling story line the profound symbolism the brilliant character delineation are all in evidence and there is a tightness and precision in these stories of which the author had not been capable before. Billy Budd the last of Melville's works is considered by many scholars to be his greatest. Bantam paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2311510
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MELVILLE HERMAN
Selected Poems of Herman Melville
Norfolk CT: New Directions nd. First Edition. Paperbound. 30 pages. Some slight offsetting from a review clipping laid in else very good with some slight darkening and light spotting around the outer edges in printed wrappers. New Directions unknown books
Bookseller reference : 11748E
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MELVILLE HERMAN
“Chattanooga†and “Gettysburg†In Harper’s Monthly Magazine. Volume 33
New York: Harper & Brothers June to November 1866. First Edition. Publisher’s collected volume of six months of the magazine with index. Two issues contain the first appearance in print of Herman Melville’s Civil War poems “Chattanooga†and “Gettysberg.†Modern gilt-stamped half morocco and cloth boards. Neat 19th century library stamp at head of contents page. Very good. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 11093J
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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
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MELVILLE Lewis
The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill
New York: Duffield 1910. hardcover. very good. 13 plates including frontispiece with tissue guard. Tall 8vo burgundy cloth rubbed. New York: Duffield & Company 1910. Very good.<br/><br/> Duffield unknown books
Bookseller reference : 281021
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GILLISS James Melville
Map of the Republic of Chile - Sheets I II and III; Compiled by the U.S. Astronomical Expidition from the surveys of Pissis & Campbell
Washington D.C.: Gilliss James Melville 1855. Three maps. Lithograph. Sheet I II and III image sizes 16.5 x 9.75 inches each; page sizes 19 x 11.25 inches each.<br/><br/> Unusual set of maps on thin paper that illustrate the U.S. Naval expedition to the Southern Hemisphere 1849-1852. In good condition. Some chips and small tears to edges each map shows some staining and foxing.<br/><br/> Gilliss, James Melville unknown books
Bookseller reference : 279935
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