Omoo: A Narrative of Adventure in the South Seas

by Herman Melville

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First American edition of the author's second book. Frontispiece chart. xv, i , 17 -389, 1 ; xv -xxiii, i ads ; 8 ads pp. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, plain endpapers. About fine, minor wear at head and tale of spine. BAL 13656. Item #373841

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