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Post Melville Davisson
The Methods of Uncle Abner
Boulder: The Aspen Press 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; tan spine red text; jacket has little to no wear unclipped; boards strong and clean; textblock and interior pages clean; signed by the editors Tom and Enid Schantz; pp 95. 1290325. Full-priced Rockville. The Aspen Press hardcover books
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Melville Herman
OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
London: John Murray 1847. First British Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 321 pages; VG; bound in contemporary half-burgundy calf marbled boards rebacked with modern burgundy cloth gilt titling to spine; mild wear and rubbing to boards; lacking terminal ads. BAL 13655: State C of page 209 no priority; frontispiece map.; WD consignment; shelved case 2. Omoo is the second book by American writer Herman Melville first published in London in 1847 preceding the American edition by several weeks and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. In 1949 the novel was adapted into the exploitation film Omoo-Omoo the Shark God. wikipedia. 1316775. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. John Murray hardcover books
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Whyte Melville G. J. and Lionel Edwards illustrator
SONGS AND VERSES
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1924. First thus. Quarto 148pp. Hardcover without jacket in G condition. Bumping and shelf-wear. Vellum over boards. Head edge gilt. Rubbing and soiling to boards. No markings or creases to the text. Boards bowed. Binding is sturdy. Includes numerous tipped in plates. TJ CONSIGNMENT.<br /> <br /> <p><br /> Shelve:<br><br /> CASE #0<br /> <p><br /> Spine is vellum with gilt text. 1235805. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
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Melville Herman author; Hayford Harrison; Parker Hershel; Tanselle G. Thomas editors; Howard Leon historical note
TYPEE : A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE THE NORTHWESTERN-NEWBERRY EDITION VOLUME ONE
Evanston: Northwestern University Press Newberry Library 1968. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine tan with black and red print; DJ is tan with black and red print tears at spine ends and flap corners long tear along top of rear spine hinge toning to spine mild smudging shelfwear; Boards in black cloth with gold print on red banner clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; xiv 374 pages 1 b&w plate port. 1316689. FP New Rockville Stock. Northwestern University Press, Newberry Library hardcover books
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Melville Herman
PIERRE OR THE AMBIGUITIES
New York: Grove Press 1957. Cloth and boards. Spine a trace sunned with some slight tanning to edges of boards; very good or better in acetate wrapper. First Grove Press printing the deluxe issue. Copy #61 of 100 numbered copies in addition to the wrapperbound Evergreen Books issue and the normal clothbound issue. Grove Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT84977
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Melville Herman
BILLY BUDD AND OTHER PROSE PIECES
London: Constable and Co. 1924. Large octavo. Light blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt t.e.g. Spine ends a bit worn 7cm patch of offsetting at top edge of rear free endsheet neat ink name see below small spot on upper board very good. First collective edition including the first appearance of "Billy Budd Foretopman" and a number of other prose pieces in book form. Edited by Raymond Weaver. Published as volume 13 of the Standard Edition limited to 750 sets. With the ownership signature of American literature scholar Norman Holmes Pearson. BAL 13682. Constable and Co. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT84976
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Melville Herman
POEMS CONTAINING BATTLE-PIECES JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS TIMOLEON AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
London: Constable and Co. 1924. Large octavo. Light blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt t.e.g. Faint white streaks in one area of the upper cover neat ink name but see below otherwise a very good copy without the dust jacket. First collective edition including poems published in book form here for the first time. Edited by Michael Sadleir and Raymond Weaver. Published as volume 16 of the Standard Edition limited to 750 sets. With the ownership signature of American literature scholar Norman Holmes Pearson and some pencil ticks next to a few poems in the table of contents. BAL 13683. Constable and Co. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT84975
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Melville Herman
MOBY DICK ROMAN
Paris: nrf/Gallimard 1941. xxiv5362pp. Thick octavo. Printed wrapper fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Wrapper lightly tanned and minimally soiled short crack at toe of lower joint but a very good copy in later glassine. First edition in French translated by Jean Giono Lucien Jacques and Joan Smith. Copy #116 of only 100 copies printed on alfa Lafuma-Navarre from a total of 174 copies on fine papers. Giono's work as translator in company with his pacifist colleagues was accomplished contemporary with his writing of his own semi-fictional prose work MELVILLE. In the Princeton Centennial Exhibition of editions of MOBY DICK this translation was represented by a 1948 reprint. nrf/Gallimard unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT84978
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Melville Herman.
Typee Omoo Mardi.
Library of America 1982. Later printing. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase. Blue cloth. Library of America, 1982. Later printing. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 186261
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Melville Herman.
Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of The Marquesas Islands; or a Peep at Polynesian Life.
John Murray London: 1846. First edition. Hinges joints and two tears to spine expertly restored near fine thus in custom mylar cover. One half period black leather over marbled boards. True first of Melville's first book with the following issue points not conforming to any of Blanck's variants. Page 19 first line reads Pomarea Blanck's first issue point map appears at A8v T8 brought forward as half-title. John Murray, London: 1846. First edition. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 185127
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Melville Herman.
The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville.
Thomas Yoseloff 1964. Second printing. Slight crimps to spine tips else fine in near fine lightly toned dust jacket with slight wear to upper spine and a short closed tear in mylar cover. Thomas Yoseloff, 1964. Second printing. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 183054
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Melville Joy.
Diaghilev and Friends.
Haus Publishing 2009. First edition first printing. Haus Publishing, 2009. First edition, first printing. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 165011
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Melville Herman.
Billy Budd Sailor; The Piazza Tales.
Franklin Library 1982. First printing thus. Fine. Illus. by Alan Price. Full green leather decoratively gilt. Part of the 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. Publisher's pamphlet laid in. Franklin Library, 1982. First printing thus. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 156841
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Melville Herman.
Billy Budd Sailor; The Piazza Tales.
Franklin Library 1982. First printing thus. Fine. Illus. by Alan Price. Full green leather decoratively gilt. Part of the 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. Franklin Library, 1982. First printing thus. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 142849
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James Melville.
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill.
Folio Society 1969. First edition thus. Fine in near fine lightly worn slipcase. Folio Society, 1969. First edition thus. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 79399
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Whyte Melville GJ. G. J.
Songs & Verses.
Charles Scribner's Sons 1924. First U.S. edition. Very Good with moderate wear and rubbing to edges and corners light darkening of paper and previous owners name to front free endpaper. Color illustrations by Lionel Edwards. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First U.S. edition. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 38634
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Melville Sir James.
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill.
Folio Society 1969. First edition thus. Faint wear still fine in fine faintly worn slipcase. Color reproductions. Folio Society, 1969. First edition thus. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 69692
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Melville Herman
Billy Budd Benito Cereno
New York: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Full white sail cloth with spine hubs stamped in black leaf. Near fine in spine darkened very good slipcase. Shore Robert. 196 pages. 8vo illustrated with casein paintings by Robert Shore. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Limited edition copy 171 of 1500 signed by Shore. With LEC Monthly Letter laid-in. NEWMAN & WICHE 367. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5661
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Gehenna Press: Melville Herman
MELVILLE ON PIRANESI caption title
Northampton: Gehenna Press 1969. 4pp. Folio leaflet 24 x 17.5"; 61 x 44.5 cm. Light rumpling and soft creases very good or better. One of 1200 printed at the Gehenna Press illustrated with a reproduction of the title image from Piranesi's CARCERI INVENZIONE printed by Meriden Gravure. Distributed in acknowledgement of the 150th anniversary of Melville's birth. The accompanying text by Melville is from CLAREL. The separately printed New Year's presentation slip is not present. Shipped rolled. Uncommon. BROOK 91. Gehenna Press unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT84916
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Hilton Simpson Melville W.
Shawia Surgery
London: John Bale Sons & Danielsson 1920. Paperback. Good. text illustrations 29p. Original wrapper. 25cm. Moderately browned. A couple of small chips. Recent label mounted on front identifying this as coming from the library of H. A. R. Gibb. SIGNED on cover "With kind regards" by Hilton-Simpson. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1920 Vol. XIII. <br/><br/> John Bale Sons & Danielsson paperback books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 84084
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Melville Herman
Rock Rodondo: Sketches Third & Fourth of "The Encantadas."; "The edition was illustrated and designed by Ronald Keller."
New York: Red Angel Press 1981. First separate edition 1/100 copies this #2 inscribed for a collector and signed by the designer/illustrator. Large 4to 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. 2 24 pp. Large illustrated print folded and affixed to rear endpaper with an illustrated artist's note on a facing endpaper. Accompanied by the prospectus and two advertising flyers for the book a bookmark describing the binding and a signed note from the designer/illustrator concerning publication. "The text is a depiction of a small rock pinnacle on the Galapagos that is host to countless raucus oceanic birds" from the prospectus. Fine. Decorated tan cloth with a relief depiction of the rock as the front pastedown. 9668. <br/><br/> Red Angel Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63008
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Beard James Melville
K.K.K. SKETCHES HUMOROUS AND DIDACTIC TREATING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE KU-KLUX-KLAN MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH; WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE CAUSES WHICH GAVE RISE TO IT AND THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES EMANATING FROM IT
Philadelphia PA: Claxton Ramsen & Haffelfinger 1877. 8vo.; 192pp. Original gilt-stamped cloth spine faded; lacking the slip tipped in at the title page front endpaper adhering to the coated fly leaf. A very good copy. First edition. <br/><br/> Claxton, Ramsen & Haffelfinger hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 47442
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Melville Herman
Rock Rodondo: Sketches Third & Fourth of "The Encantadas"
New York: Red Angel Press 1981. Hardcover. 12" x 6.5". 6 24pp 6. Deckled edges artist's design in molded paper art on fep blind-stamped illustration on title page artist's note printed in black on rear fep folding screen-printed illustration at rear. Oatmeal and illustrated cloth boards. Includes informational bookmark. Copy 37/100 signed by illustrator and designer Ronald Keller. Fine. . LikeNew. Hardcover . Red Angel Press [1981] hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36382
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Melville Robert
New Sculpture by Jann Haworth
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery 1971. Paperback. VG. Black stapled wraps. 12 pp chiefly illustrations 8 large bw plates. The American artist Jann Haworth b. 1942 grew up in Hollywood and moved to England in 1961. She became involved with the British Pop artists and was married for a time to Peter Blake. Lists 40 works mostly sculptures. Blake died in 1979. Haworth is perhaps best remembered as having been a co-designer of the iconic Sgt. pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Sidney Janis Gallery paperback books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 169093
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Herskovits Melville J.
Background of African Art
Denver: Denver Art Museum 1945. Softcover. Good. Tight and mostly clean but with some general soiling to covers and a few light pencil marks in margins. B/w illustrated wraps with red/black lettering. 64 pp. with occasional bw illus. Part of the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Series. Chapters include The Peoples and Cultures of Africa The West African Culture of Dahomey The Patterns of African Art Illustrations and Suggested Reading. Denver Art Museum unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 142732
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Melville Herman
Pierre; or the Ambiguities
New York: Harper & Brothers 1852. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original purple/gray cloth decorated in blind and spine stamped in silver. Near Fine with light lean and sunning to spine neat restoration to cloth at head rubbing to joints. Previous owner name partially abraded from title page leaving several small holes. Pages toned and sporadically foxed throughout though heavier at preliminary and terminal pages. One of Melville's scarcest titles which was published shortly after Moby Dick. Harper & Brothers unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140940979
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Melville Herman
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume III June to November 1851 Moby-Dick The Town-Ho's Story
New York: Harper and Brothers 1851. First Edition. Near Fine. Volume III June to November. Bound in brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. A handsome volume which contains the first material from Herman Melville's Moby Dick to ever be published: the story "Town's Ho" which would later become Chapter 54. Near Fine. Cloth lightly rubbed splitting at spine joints though binding remains solid. Foxing to pages. Still a rather lovely copy. Harper and Brothers unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140940978
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KANNER Catherine artist edited by John Sheller with text by Herman Melville William Shakespeare & John Milton.
Moby Dick. CETUS The Whale. Signed Limited Edition.
Pacific Palisades California: Melville Press 1996. First edition number 29 of 200 copies signed by Kanner & initialed by Shelton. Small 4to publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in silver. Unpaginated accordian bound "letter-press printed by John Robinson . on Arches 88 paper. Handbound by Allwyn O'Mara . Silver foil stamping by Custom Bindery Los Angeles. End-papers handmade by the artist and editor" excerpted from the colophon. With TLS laid in on letterhead from Kanner to Don Bruckner then editor of the New York Times Book Review apparently enclosed with this copy in seeking review.<br /><br /><b> Lacking the plastic slipcase </b>binding slightly soiledone corner bruised otherwise fine.<br /><br /> The first publication from this small fine press which was awarded the Rounce & Coffin Award for excellence in book design in 1997. Per OCLC an <b><i>"</i></b><b><i>Illustrated companion to Moby Dick containing 12 engraved portraits of Pequod's crew with accompanying text by Melville Shakespeare and Milton."</i></b> Melville Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 878
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Melville Herman
BILLY BUDD. BENITO CERENO
New York: The Limited Editions Club 1965. cloth slipcase. Limited Editions Club. small 4to. cloth slipcase. xviii 176 2 pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies and signed by Shore LEC 367. With an Introduction by Maxwell Geismar and Paintings by Robert Shore. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Monthly Newsletter / Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine of book is lightly age darkened. Slipcase is lightly soiled chipped and faded. Exlibris bookplate on front pastedown. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 12330
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Melville Herman.
Typee
New York: Dodd Mean and Company n.d. circa 1920. viii 2 289 pp. Color frontispiece title page and plates. <br /><br />Illustrated edition of Melville's classic with color plates by Mead Schaeffer. Bound in half green morocco over green cloth with raised bands and gold spine decoration and lettering. Binding lightly rubbed. Dodd, Mean and Company hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 41158
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Melville Herman.
Narrative of Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or A Peep at Polynesian Life.
London: John Murray 1846. 6/25/16. xvi 1 285 pp. <br /><br />This is a rebound copy of the first London edition of Melville's early best seller - BAL 13652 first issue variant A. It has been trimmed from 7 inches to 6 3/4 and rebound in calf over marbled boards. It has been rebacked with a portion of the old backstrip laid down and a new spine label added. Stationers ticket of J. Whereat on front pastedown. Some foxing on preliminary pages else a very good copy. John Murray hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 38218
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Melville Lewis
Nell Gwyn: The Story of her Life
Palala Press 2016-05-09. Hardcover. Good. 1926. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Minor overall wear including a few places where boards are rubbed through pages are foxed. Palala Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 188851 ISBN : 1356104193 9781356104192
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MELVILLE. REESE William S.
A HERMAN MELVILLE COLLECTION; Exhibited at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death from the collection of William S. Reese
New Haven CT: Yale 1991. 8vo pp. 27. Paper wraps. A nice copy. [Yale] unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 51923
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HOFFMAN Daniel MELVILLE Herman
Melville's "Story of China Aster
American Literature 1950. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Stapled wrappers. Offsetting on front wrapper with light wear and bumped corner a very good to near fine copy. Inscribed in pencil by Hoffman to his mother. Hoffman served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate in 1973-1974 and published several additional books of poetry and literary scholarship. American Literature unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 424055
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MELVILLE Herman
Typee: A Narrative of the Marquesas Islands
London: J.M. Dent & Sons 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 16mo. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine. Spine faded light stains on rear board very good lacking the dustwrapper. Everyman's Library series. J.M. Dent & Sons hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 421691
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MELVILLE Herman
The Works of Herman Melville
London Bombay Sydney: Constable and Company Ltd 1922-1924. The Standard Edition complete. Limited to 750 sets including the first publication of one of Melville's masterworks the novella Billy Budd which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers at the time. BAL 13680 noting that the volume containing The Confidence-Man also contains a bibliography of the first editions of Melville's prose works by Michael Sadleir. BAL entries also exist for individual volumes which include first editions: Billy Budd BAL 13682 noting the contents which represent "pieces here first located in book form" including the title story which was "never before published"; Poems: Battle-Pieces John Marr and Other Sailors Timoleon and Miscellaneous Poems BAL 13683 noting that the "Author's Note" p. 162 "Miscellaneous Poems" pp. 297-349 and "At the Hostelry" pp. 351-434 first appear here in book form. Regarding the format of the Constable set BAL specifies: "LP cloth: blue. Maroon-coated endpapers. Top edges gilt." descriptions to which the present set conforms. We are not aware however of another variant printing of the set. The Standard Edition was published episodically with the inevitable consequence that complete sets are rare. Seven of the volumes in the present set are in their original dust jackets which are extremely rare and fragile having been printed on heavy acidic paper. The dust jacketed volumes include the first four volumes: Typee Omoo and Mardi Vols. III-IV and Vols. X-XII: The Piazza Tales Israel Potter and The Confidence Man. Remnants of other dust jackets chiefly inside flaps are included in a few of the other volumes. The set is in exceptionally fine condition with all hinges firm and tight and with no fading to the spines and no wear or tear. 16 volumes tall 8vo original cloth t.e.g. dust jackets. The set is in exceptionally fine condition with all hinges firm and tight and with no fading to the spines and no wear or tear. Constable and Company Ltd unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21341
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Cane Melville
TO BUILD A FIRE. RECENT POEMS AND A PROSE PIECE
New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1964. cloth-backed boards dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards dust jacket. x 70 pages. First edition. Presentation in 1964 by the author on the half-title "For Dan Wolfe". Blurb by Hiram Haydn. Bumped at the foot of the spine otherwise fine in price-clipped lightly soiled white dust jacket. Harcourt Brace & World unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 112509
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MELVILLE Herman; Antoniio FRASCONI
On the Slain Collegians
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972. A fine copy with slightest of toning to the jacket. 8vo. Woodcuts by Frasconi. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First trade edition signed by Frasconi on the title-page. Frasconi was both the editor and illustrator of this volume of Melville's poems. A limited edition had been published the previous year. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 406850
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Melville George Melville Earl 1634? 1707
The Speech of His Grace George Earl of Melvill Their Magesties High Commissioner at the Opening of .Parliaments.1690
Scotland: Edinburgh: Printed By the Heir of Andrew Anderson 1690. Quarto. Original Wraps. Second Edition. Wing 2nd Ed; M1652. 4p. The title Earl of Melville in the peerage of Scotland was conferred in 1690 on George 4th Lord Melville upon his return from exile in Holland with William and Mary of Orange. The speech tells why His majesty could not be present because of the expedition into Ireland."he has rescued you from these greatest of evils Popery and Slavery.I belive there few true Protestants .who would not give half their estates for so great a blessing.". He goes on to appeal for support for the King who has been instrumental in their deliverance from Popery. The copy is generlaly in good condition though the title page has been trimmed on the edge thus reading The/Speech/of His grace/Georgee/Earl of/Melville; Their Magesties High Commissioner/At the Opening of the Second Session of the First Parliament of Their Majesties Antient Kingdom of Scotland/ The 15th of April 1690. Most surviving copies are in University Libraries and the National Archives of Scotland. Library duplicate in stiff blue pam binder. Edinburgh: Printed By the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1690 unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004602
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Melville Herman; Kent Rockwell Illustrator
Moby Dick or The Whale 3 Volumes
Chicago: The Lakeside Press 1930. Deluxe Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition thus limited to 1000 copies. Three volumes. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in silver lacking acetate wrappers in aluminum slipcase. Near Fine with light sunning to spines very light rubbing to cloth at covers and edges offsetting from illustrations. Near Fine aluminum case is only slightly tarnished and while it does not appear dented or pinched one volume takes a little more work to pull out. A crowning achievement of machine age book design it also helped to propel Moby Dick from semi-obscurity into its current fame as perhaps the quintessential American novel. The Lakeside Press unknown books
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MELVILLE Herman.
The Poems of Herman Melville.
Kent:: Kent State University Press. Near Fine. 2000. Paperback. 9780873386609 . Edited by Douglas Robillard. Revised edition paperback. Near fine in illustrated wraps.; 349 pages . Kent State University Press, paperback books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 93324 ISBN : 0873386604 9780873386609
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Melville Herman
MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER
London: Richard Bentley 1849. Three volumes. Octavo. Turn of the century three-quarter olive calf and marbled boards spines gilt extra gilt labels by Larkins. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn but a handsome very good set with the half-titles in the 2nd and 3rd volumes none called for in the first. First edition preceding the U.S. edition. One of one thousand sets printed. Apart from THE WHALE Melville's only other three volume novel and while a difficult set indeed in original cloth even sets in bindings such as that in hand are uncommon. SADLEIR EXCURSIONS p.225. BAL 13657. Richard Bentley hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT71567
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Melville Robert
HENRY MOORE. SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-1969
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1970. 4to. 368pp. Index. With 846 illustrations including 32 mounted color plates. Brown cloth gilt. D.j. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover books
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Herskovits Melville J.
The Myth of the Negro Past
Boston: Beacon Press 1969. Paperback. xxix 368p. foreword preface references bibliographies index tablesvery good reprint trade paperback in white wraps. Originally published in 1941. Herskovits' pathbreaking study directly challenged the dominant academic beliefs in African American inferiority by examining cultural backgrounds rather than white prejudices. Beacon Press paperback books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 255569
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Anderson Melville B.
The Happy Teacher
New York: B. W. Huebsch 1910. Hardcover. 54p. letterpress on Normandy Vellum first edition hardbound cased into 8.5x5.7 inch paper over boards with printed paper label deckled edges. A little edgeworn with card peeking through at extremities and light pressure marks and dust-soil. Doggerel by a scholar of the classics. B. W. Huebsch hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 182769
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Bankhead Tallulah Marc Gilbert Sauvalon Frederick Jackson Alan Melville
Tallulah Bankhead in Dear Charles The Playgoer: The Magazine in the Theatre Playbill/program
New York: The Playgoer 1955. Magazine. 48p. including covers 6x9 inches illustrated with ads cast bios very good program/playbil in digest magazine-format in stapled pictorial wraps with cover photo of Tallulah on cover. The 1955 Biltmore Theatre playbill. The Playgoer unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 175399
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Mitchell Mark and David Leavitt editors Tobias Smollett John Cleland Herman Melville Willa Cather Saki et al.
Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: the hidden tradition of homosexual literature in English from 1748 to 1914
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1997. Hardcover. xix 458p. introduction toned pages else very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Fiction from John Cleland Tobias Smollett Herman Melville Ambrose Bierce etc dealing with gay characters and themes. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 81403 ISBN : 0395837065 9780395837061
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MELVILLE Herman.
Moby-Dick; or The Whale.
NY:: Penguin Books. As New. 2013. Hardcover. 9780143124672 . M in the Penguin Drop Caps series. First printing thus. As new in fluorescent teal boards. No dust jacket as issued. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Penguin Books, hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 77149 ISBN : 0143124676 9780143124672
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Melville Herman sourcework and Ray Bradbury and John Huston screenwriters
Japanese Theatrical Program for: MOBY DICK
Japan 1956. 8pp. Quarto 25.5 x 17.5cm. Folded signatures laid into glossy pictorial wrapper. Photographs and stills. Very near fine. A souvenir/promotional booklet for the Japanese distribution of John Huston's film adaptation of Melville's novel based on a screenplay cowritten with Ray Bradbury and starring Gregory Peck Richard Basehart Orson Welles and Leo Genn. There is some English language content but the bulk of the content is in Japanese. The Japanese release was quite early predating by a week even the UK premiere. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT83963
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MELVILLE Sir James.
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill.
London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1972. Hardcover. Edited and with an introduction by Gordon Donaldson. Second impression thus. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 92544
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