Mardi: and a voyage thither
$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition of Melville's third book, preceded by about 3 weeks by the London edition in 3 volumes; 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xii, 365, 1 ; 5 , x-xii, 387, 1 , 8 ads ; original brown cloth, covers blindstamped with Harper & Brothers monogram central, gilt-stamped spine; small crack at the top of the spine of volume I with shallow loss, tiny hole just above the title, the usual mild foxing and the inevitable
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