The Piazza Tales

by Herman Melville

$6,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First Edition. 431, 7 pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Purple stamped cloth with yellow endpapers. Spine toned, some light staining to covers, head and foot of spine with slight wear, dampstaining to edge of last few leaves. Bookplates of Frederic Skiff, Estelle Doheny paper , and another former owner. BAL 13669; Doheny, Perryville 358. Item #368688 One the great collections of short fiction in American literature,

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