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White Gabriel and Robert Melville
American naive painting of the 18th and 19th centuries from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch at the Royal Academy of Arts
London: Arts Council of Great Britain / Royal Academy Of Arts 1968. Softcover. Good . covers have scuffs scratches light soiling & foxing. pgs edge toned w/ instances of light foxing otherwise clean. tight binding. oblong white pictorial wraps. approx 65 unpaginated pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. 111 black and white illustrations with 8 color plates. Arts Council of Great Britain / Royal Academy Of Arts unknown books
Référence libraire : 177271
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MELVILLE Herman
Moby-Dick; or The Whale
New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original pebble-grained red cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-embossed rules and front board publisher's device. xxiii 635pp 6pp ads. Good plus. Internally a sound "Very good" as it's internally tight and unrestored showing only mild sporadic age toning and occasional light foxing; binding is sound and decent with exposed tips; somewhat rough spine has had 1" X 1" excision archivally and discretely restored and chipped spine head and tail archivally rebuilt see images; pencilled 1852 ownership signature on inner flyleaf. A tight presentable and quite handleable first U.S. edition first issue of this giant of 19th century literature. One of only 3000 U.S. copies the American edition -- preceded by the 2-volume English version one month prior -- met with little fanfare and supposedly many unsold copies were destroyed in an 1854 warehouse fire. Original terra cotta endpapers. Despite wear this is a respectable copy appropriately priced. Housed in a handsome custom red cloth clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. BAL 13664. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
Référence libraire : 42443
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MELVILLE Herman
THE LETTERS OF.
New Haven: Yale 1960. First Edition. 8vo pp. xxxi 398. Index. Edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman. With several facsimiles and a frontis illustration. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Edges slightly soiled corners and ends of spine very slightly scuffed o/w a VG tight copy in little browned and chipped dj. BAL 13704. Yale unknown books
Référence libraire : 52134
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MELVILLE. MAYOUX Jean Jacques
MELVILLE
NY: Grove 1960. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. 190. Translated by John Ashberry. Illustrated. Paper wraps. Several loose signatures good. Grove unknown books
Référence libraire : 52138
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MELVILLE. REED Henry
MOBY DICK; A play for radio from Herman Melville's novel
London: Jonathan Cape 1947. First Edition. 8vo pp. 96. Olive cloth. Cover slightly scuffed at edges o/w a VG tight copy in browned chipped and soiled dj. Jonathan Cape unknown books
Référence libraire : 52147
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MELVILLE. HARDWICK Elizabeth
HERMAN MELVILLE; A Penguin Life
NY: Lipper/Viking 2000. First printing. 8vo pp. 161. Paper over boards. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. Lipper/Viking unknown books
Référence libraire : 52139 ISBN : 0670891584 9780670891580
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MELVILLE. BRITTEN Benjamin
BILLY BUDD; Opera in four acts
London: Boosey & Hawkes 1951. 8vo pp. 64. Libretto only. Paper wraps. Cover worn at spine o/w VG. Music by Benjamin Britten libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier; adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Boosey & Hawkes unknown books
Référence libraire : 52144
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MELVILLE. METCALF Paul and Clare Spark
ENTER ISABEL; The Herman Melville correspondence of Clare Spark and .
Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico 1991. First Edition. 8vo pp. 100. Edited and annotated by Metcalf. Red cloth. About as new in dj. Spark working on a doctoral dissertation on Melville wrote to Paul Metcalf Melville's great grandson with questions about his relationship to his famous forebearer and about his own upbringing and literary work. University of New Mexico unknown books
Référence libraire : 52135 ISBN : 0826312993 9780826312990
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MELVILLE. MILLER Edwin Haviland
MELVILLE
NY: Braziller 1975. First Edition. 8vo pp. xiv 15-382. Illustrated with portraits. Ivory cloth. Edges little soiled corners of cover slightly bumped o/w a VG copy in chipped and soiled dj. Braziller unknown books
Référence libraire : 52128 ISBN : 0807607878 9780807607879
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MELVILLE Herman
. AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES OF OLD ZACK
New Brighton MN: Starosciak 1973. No. 209 of 600 numbered copies. 8vo pp. not numbered. Introduction by Kenneth Starosciak. Paper wraps. A nice copy. The anecdotes appeared in "Yankee Doodle" a satirical magazine between July 24 and September 11 1847. Zachary Taylor was the butt of these nine short satires along with the journalism of the time. Starosciak unknown books
Référence libraire : 52003
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THE MELVILLE SOCIETY
.NEWSLETTER; Volume VII March 1951 through Volume XV Winter 1960 plus December 1961
Various: Melville Society 1961. All except December '61 35 copies are one sheet of heavy paper 8-1/2" by 11" folded once into a cover with two pages of text inside. This includes two copies of the Winter 1960 issue. December '61 consists of three mimeographed sheets 8-1/2'"by 11" printed one side and stapled at upper left corner. Slight spotting on the latter; one of the Winter 1960 issues has a stain on front other issues slightly darkened but nice. The newsletter was published quarterly. The December 1961 letter explains that the former publication had been discontinued and that mineographed letters would now be how news would be published. Melville Society unknown books
Référence libraire : 52002
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MELVILLE Herman
THE BATTLE-PIECES OF.
NY: Yoseloff 1964. Second printing. Waud Alfred and William. 8vo pp. 302. Notes works cited index. Illustrated by combat sketches by Alfred and William Waud. Blue cloth. Edges slightly soiled and yellowed o/w a VG tight copy in browned and little chipped dj. Poems about the Civil War with copious notes by the editor. Yoseloff unknown books
Référence libraire : 51955
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MELVILLE Herman
BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER; A story of Wall Street. 1853
NY: Simon & Schuster 1997. First printing. 8vo pp. 77. Illustrated with several photographs. Paper over boards with applied small photograph lettering in gilt three-quarter black cloth. A nice copy in scuffed plastic dj. Simon & Schuster unknown books
Référence libraire : 51973 ISBN : 0684819104 9780684819105
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MELVILLE Herman
SELECTED POEMS OF.
London: Hogarth Press 1943. First Edition thus. Small 8vo pp. 52. Notes. Edited by William Plomer. New Hogarth Library Vol. X. Paper over boards. Cover browned at spine and edges o/w a VG tight copy. Hogarth Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 51971
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MELVILLE Herman
MOBY DICK;; or The whale
Chicago IL: William Benton 1988. Thirtieth printing. 8vo pp. xx 420. University of Chicago Great books of the western world 48. Tan cloth with leather-grained spine. TEG. About as new. William Benton unknown books
Référence libraire : 52001 ISBN : 0852291639 9780852291634
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MELVILLE. WELLES Orson
MOBY DICK -- REHEARSED; A drama in two acts. Being an adaptation - for the most part in blank verse - of the novel by Herman Melville
London: Samuel French 1965. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. 76. Paper wraps. Cover slightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Samuel French unknown books
Référence libraire : 51997
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MELVILLE. NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
BULLETIN.; Volume 69 January-December 1965
NY: NY Public Library 1965. Periodical. 8vo pp. viii 633-694. Paper wraps. Cover slightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Included are Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London Journal Part I; and some reminiscences of Herman Melville by his granddaughter Mrs Frances Thomas Osborne. NY Public Library unknown books
Référence libraire : 52005
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MELVILLE. LEYDA Jay
THE MELVILLE LOG; A documentary life of Herman Melville 1819-1891
NY: Harcourt Brace 1951. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo pp. xxxiv 494; 496-899. Sources index. Illustrations are in Vol. II. Blue cloth. Covers slightly bumped on upper corners spines little darkened and slightly scuffed at ends edges little soiled o/w a VG tight set in some worn slip case. See BAL Vol. VI p. 180. Harcourt, Brace unknown books
Référence libraire : 52006
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MELVILLE Herman
Omoo:; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
NY: Harper 1847. Third Edition. 12mo pp. xii 389 xvi-xxiv 8. Map inserted. Brown cloth worn at extremities of the spine front hinge loose former owner's Rockwell Kent bookplate on the end paper some foxed and stained on a couple of pages. See BAL 13656 Wright I 1861. Scarce. Melville's title means "rover" in Polynesian and takes up the story at the end of Typee wherein the crew on the whaler Julia mutinies and is taken to Tahiti which is where Melville and the good Doctor Long Ghost explore. Melville's second book. Harper unknown books
Référence libraire : 51838
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MELVILLE Herman
THE WORKS OF HERMAN MELVILLE
London: Constable and Company Ltd 1924. The Standard edition ltd. 750 sets. Large 8vo 16 volumes. Bound in original publishers blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Top Edge Gilt. The volume titled: "Poems" lacks a 1/2 inch triangle of cloth at the top of the spine some intermittant pencil underling "Piazza Tales" has a closed tear from one leaf having been carelesslessly opened couple of dj flaps laid in couple of nicks at the extremities of the spines otherwise this is a nice clean set previous owner's bookplate on the end paper. This set includes the first publication of Melville's Billy Budd which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers at the time. BAL 13680 13682 13683. An excellent complete set. Blanck also notes that "The Confidence Man" volume contains a bibliography of Melville's work by Michael Sadleir; "Miscellaneous Poems" and "At the Hostery" appear in a book here for the first time. Constable and Company Ltd unknown books
Référence libraire : 51856
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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 ediiton with a sequel
NY: Wiley & Putnam London: Murray 1846. First Printing second state. 12mo pp. 307. The text is expanded to include the story. Bound in purple cloth spine faded to a lighter color stamped in blind on the covers gilt on the spine. Lacks a small half-circle of cloth at the top of the spine little rubbed aloing the bottom otherwise a near fine copy. BAL 13654. The story of the protagonist and his friend Toby who jump ship and wander into the valley of Typee inhabited by cannibals! Wiley & Putnam | London: Murray unknown books
Référence libraire : 51836
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MELVILLE Herman
Israel Potter:; His Fifty Years of Exile
NY: Putnam 1855. First edition first state. as called for by Blanck on pp. 141 237 238 and 239. 12mo pp. 276. Bound in brown cloth first issue with pendants under the "F Y E" on the spine. Some rubbed. Front hinge little tender. Some foxed throughout a very good copy. BAL 13667. Wright II 1700. Israel Potter "is based on Henry Trumbull's biography The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter 1824 In search of freedom and adventure Israel become involved in the battle of Bunker Hill. He meets three Americans: Benjamin Franklin who robs him . John Paul Jones who genuinely befriends him and Ethan Allen who posses America's most admirable characteristics. An archypal American he is taken prisoner by the English exiled for 50 years and returns home to die"p. 507. Putnam unknown books
Référence libraire : 51835
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MELVILLE Herman
THE SEA; Excerpts from Herman Melville
Berkeley CA: Turtle's Quill Scriptorium 1970. Second edition 1/1000 copies. Alexander Joyce M. 8vo pp. not numbered. Text lettered by Dorsey Alexander woodcuts by Joyce M. Alexander. Paper wraps. A nice copy in scuffed plastic dj. Turtle's Quill Scriptorium unknown books
Référence libraire : 51926
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MELVILLE. BOWEN Merlin
THE LONG ENCOUNTER; Self and experience in the writings of Herman Melville
Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago 1960. 8vo pp. vii 282. Index. Gray cloth. Cover slightly scuffed at ends of spine and corners o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and little soiled and chipped dj. Univeristy of Chicago unknown books
Référence libraire : 51933
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MELVILLE. PUTNAM Wallace
MOBY DICK SEEN AGAIN.; Diary of an artist reading Melville's Book
NY: Blue Moon Press 1975. First Edition. 4to pp. 4 132 4 p. Some toning to the top of some of the leaves in 35 loose folders 11.25" x 9.25" each enclosed in wrap-around folder with author and title on cover printed on Crane Artificial Parchment rag paper by Yorktown Printing Corporation Yorktown Heights August 1975 Sixty-five copies of this edition included an original lithograph; 15 of these also included an original drawing. Issued in an edition of 365 copies this an "imperfect" copy because it was issued without a box. Signed by the artist. Inscribed by the artist: "To David sic Metcalf Greetings Wallace Putnam To Herman Melville a world of thanks". Also signed on the colophon noting that this is a "HC" copy. This was actually given to Paul Metcalf writer and poet Metcalf was Herman Melville's great grandson. Rare OCLC locates just two copies. A portfolio of drawings and text responding to the novel Moby Dick. Blue Moon Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 51853
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MELVILLE Herman
JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO LONDON AND THE CONTINENT BY.; 1849-1850
Cambridge MA: Harvard 1948. First Edition. 8vo pp. xx 189. Index. Edited by Eleanor Melville Metcalf. Orange cloth. Cover slightly faded some pencil marking o/w a VG tight copy. BAL 13695. Harvard unknown books
Référence libraire : 51883
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MELVILLE Herman
The Apple-Tree Table; and other sketches with an introductory note by Henry Chapin
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1923. First Edition. 8vo pp. 329. Uncut and partially unopened. One of 1675 copies printed. Cloth backed boards spine darkened A very good copy. BAL 13681. The trade edition. Princeton Univ. Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 51861
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MELVILLE Herman
.SELECTED POEMS
Norfok CT: New Directions n.d. First Edition. 8vo pp. 30. Edited by F. O. Matthiessen. The poets of the year. Paper over boards. Cover somewhat soiled and worn o/w VG. New Directions unknown books
Référence libraire : 51906
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MELVILLE. MUMFORD Lewis
HERMAN MELVILLE
NY: Literary Guild 1929. Book Club edition. 8vo pp. vi 377. Index. Frontis portrait. Blue cloth. Owner's signature on flyleaf cover little worn at edges o/w VG. Literary Guild unknown books
Référence libraire : 51882
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MELVILLE Herman
JOHN MARR; and other poems by . with a preface by Henry Chapin
Princeton: Princeton University Press 1922. First Edition. 8vo pp. 205. One of 1850 copies. Bound in cloth backed boards uncut and unopened a fine copy. BAL 13725. Princeton University Press unknown books
Référence libraire : 51860
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MELVILLE Herman
JOURNAL UP THE STRAITS.; October 11 1856: - May 5 1857 edited with an introduction by Raymond Weaver
NY: The Colophon 1935. First Edition. 8vo pp. 182. Bound in paper boards with leather label on the spine lacks the edge not affecting any print A very nice bright copy. BAL 13690 quotes Johnson as saying 650 copies were printed. The Colophon unknown books
Référence libraire : 51857
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MELVILLE. GEIST Stanley
HERMAN MELVILLE; The tragic vision and the heroic ideal
Cambridge MA: Harvard 1939. One of 300 copies. Small 8vo pp. 76. Notes bibliography. Paper wraps with attached patterned paper dj. Harvard honors theses in English Number 12. Dj little chipped and rippled o/w VG. Harvard unknown books
Référence libraire : 51924
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MELVILLE. CHASE Richard
HERMAN MELVILLE; A critical study
NY: Macmillan 1949. First printing. 8vo pp. xiii 305. Index. Blue cloth. Cover slightly worn at ends of spine o/w a VG tight copy in chipped scuffed and faded dj. Macmillan unknown books
Référence libraire : 51900
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MELVILLE. HOWARD Leon
HERMAN MELVILLE
Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota 1961. 8vo pp. 48. Paper wraps. University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers No. 13. Cover little scuffed o/w a VG tight copy. University of Minnesota unknown books
Référence libraire : 51920
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MELVILLE. COXE Louis O and Robert Chapman
BILLY BUDD; A play in three acts based on a novel by Herman Melville
Princeton NJ: Princeton 1951. 8vo pp. 56 plus notes on the play. Foreword by Brooks Atkinson. Paper wraps. Cover slightly yellowed and scuffed o/w a VG tight copy. Princeton unknown books
Référence libraire : 51940
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MELVILLE. ROGIN Michael Paul
SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGY; The politics and art of Herman Melville
NY: Knopf 1983. First Edition. 8vo pp. xii 354. Notes index. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in little chipped and soiled dj. Knopf unknown books
Référence libraire : 51941 ISBN : 039450609X 9780394506098
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MELVILLE Herman
I AND MY CHIMNEY; In: Berkshire History Vol. VIII Number 1
Pittsfield MA: Berkshire County Historical Society 1988. 8vo pp. 32. With several photographs and an introduction by Carolyn Banfield. Paper wraps. A nice copy. Melville's description of Arrowhead his house in Pittsfield MA. Berkshire County Historical Society unknown books
Référence libraire : 51939
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MELVILLE Herman
THE SEA; Excerpts from Herman Melville
Berkeley CA: Turtle's Quill Scriptorium 1970. Third edition 1/1000 copies. Alexander Joyce M. 8vo pp. not numbered. Text lettered by Dorsey Alexander woodcuts by Joyce M. Alexander. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly soiled o/w a nice copy. Turtle's Quill Scriptorium unknown books
Référence libraire : 51927
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MELVILLE. THE CURRENT COMPANY
HERMAN MELVILLE; An illlustrated catalogue of books and other printed material by and about. including a long run of editions of Moby Dick
Bristol RI: The Current Co 1980. 8vo pp. 75. Paper wraps. Price list laid in. Chapter & Verse 30. Cover lightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy. 375 items. The Current Co unknown books
Référence libraire : 51937
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MELVILLE Herman
TYPEE
London & NY: Dent Dutton 1943. 12mo pp. x 286. Red cloth. Everyman's Library No. 180. Edges and pastedown slightly soiled ownership signature of poet William Jay Smioth on flyleaf o/w a VG tight copy. Dent, Dutton unknown books
Référence libraire : 51301
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MELVILLE Herman
SELECTED POEMS
Norfolk CT: New Directions 1944. First Edition thus. 8vo pp. 30. Edited by F. O. Matthiessen. Paper wraps. The poets of the year. VG in soiled dj. New Directions unknown books
Référence libraire : 49110
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MELVILLE. NEWHALL Nancy ed
TIME IN NEW ENGLAND
NY: Aperture 1980. Strand Paul. 4to pp. 256. With photographs by Paul Strand preface by Paul Metcalf. Gray cloth stamped in silver. Remainder mark on bottom edges slightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and soiled dj. Photographs with selections from writings ranging from those of Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet to Herman Melville and Robert Frost. Aperture unknown books
Référence libraire : 46306
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MELVILLE. LASKIN David
A COMMON LIFE; Four generations of American literary friendship and influence
NY: Simon & Schuster 1994. First printing. 8vo pp. 460. Notes index. Illustrated. A nice copy in very slightly soiled dj. Melville and Hawthorne James and Wharton Porter and Welty Bishop and Lowell. Simon & Schuster unknown books
Référence libraire : 44290
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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 ediiton with a sequel
NY: Wiley & Putnam London: Murray 1847. 8vo 2 volumes in one. This is the fourth printing of the revised edition. Bound in publisher's cloth some wear at the top of the spine front hinge partially repaired spine faded A nice clean copy. BAL 13654. Wiley & Putnam | London: Murray unknown books
Référence libraire : 17493
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MELVILLE
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Vol. 1 No. 1. to Vol 6 # 6; The first six volumes from June 1850 to May 1853
1853. 8vo Ex-library copies with pocket in rear and bookplate in the front. A very good clean copy bound in 3/4 brown morocco. The first 6 issues of this influential magazine. Mott notes: "the first number . consisted on 144 octavo pages printed in small type in double columns on a good paper stock . Two serials were begun "Charles Lever's historical romance "Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune" and Mrs. Anne Marsh's "Lettice Arnold." There were three short stories two by Dickens- one of his lesser-known Christmas stories and "A child's Dream of a Star". There were biographial sketches some travel essays and popular articles on scienc- in all over sixty items . in great variety of subject matter.Vol. II p. 384. Vol III includes "The Town-Ho's Story" by Herman Melville The only portion of "Moby Dick" to be published prior to the book issue and the first portion to be published anywhere. unknown books
Référence libraire : 22817
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MELVILLE. KENNEY Alice P.
EVIDENCES OF REGARD: THREE GENERATIONS OF AMERICAN LOVE LETTERS; offprint from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library vol. 76 1972
Stapled sheets pp. 92!119. Letters from the Ganesvoort family. unknown books
Référence libraire : 16420
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MELVILLE. MAILLOUX Steve And Parker Hershel
CHECKLIST OF MELVILLE REVIEWS
NP: The Melville Society 1975. First edn. 8vo pp. 90. Printed wraps a very nice copy. Covers little faded. A listing of newspaper and periodical reviews of Melville's writings. The Melville Society unknown books
Référence libraire : 16385
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MELVILLE
MELVILLE; Edwin Haviland
NY: Brazillier n.d. Uncorrected proof. 8vo pp. 455. Paper wraps. VG. A biography depicting the delicate balance between Melville's daily life and his creativity. Brazillier unknown books
Référence libraire : 19149
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MELVILLE. ROBERTSON LORANT Laurie
MELVILLE'S EMBRACE OF THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Southborough MA 1989. Twenty 8-1/2x11 sheets in a paper binder. VG. "Full text of a paper presented for the Melville Society at the Modern Language Association convention Washington D.C. December 29 1989. unknown books
Référence libraire : 19759
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MELVILLE. DAVIS Merrell
MELVILLE'S MARDI:; A chartless voyage
New Haven: Yale 1952. First edn. Yale studies in English v. 119. 8vo pp.240. VG in little torn dj. A fully-documented account of the genesis slow growth and completion of the novel. Yale unknown books
Référence libraire : 17264
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