Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service

by MELVILLE, Herman

$2,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. Hardcover. First American edition (English preceded), according to *BAL's* second printing with October 1849 ads (a point we've heard convincingly refuted). Octavo. Pp. xi, [i], [13]-390, followed by [18] pages of publisher's ads, dated "October, 1849" (ads have irregular pagination, but complete as..... More

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