MELVILLE, Herman.

£3,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Mardi: and a voyage thither. First American edition of Melville's third book, his first major full-length fiction, an allegorical romance set in the South Seas based on his own experiences there. This is an exceptionally fresh copy in the original cloth.Mardi was originally published in London earlier the same year.

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