The Happy Failure; in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

by Herman Melville

$200 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: Harper's, 1854. First Edition. The first appearance and the only publication of it during Melville’s life, on pages 196-199 of the July issue no. L . 8vo 250mm x 170mm , original wrappers, toning, soiling, chipping to the spine extremities, else very good and scarce. Item #1368 A wry, semi-autobiographical parable of ambition and its costs: the uncle's obsessive,

• Binding: Wrappers

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