MELVILLE, Herman.

£3,000 · 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. Mardi was originally published in London earlier the same year. A highly appealing example of the rare original cloth.

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