Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile

by Herman Melville

$1,200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first printing. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth boards both stamped in blind with decorative motif, first binding as appropriate to first printing , titles ruled in gilt on spine; some fraying on spine and edges with slight cocking, foxing throughout; a very good first issue. BAL 13667. Item #365138 Melville based this work on the Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, 1824, which

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