Moby Dick; or, the Whale
$68,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851. First American edition of Melville's epic novel, in first issue binding and completely unrestored. In original gray cloth with publisher's device stamped in blind. xxiii, 635, 6 ads . Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled and worn at the extremities, spine toned. Pages heavily foxed as common, owner details to front free endpaper, ink owner name to title page with offsetting to adjacent pages
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