The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches, With an Introductory Note

by Henry Chapin by Herman Melville

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First Edition, #155 of 1675 copies. 8vo. Cloth and boards. VG. Bookplate of Benjamin F. Houston. BAL 13681. Item #368463 “None of the sketches which follows has heretofore been gathered into a book…” - Editor's note. The collection includes an Essay of Melville’s on Hawthorne, “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” written while they were neighbors in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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