[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Melville Item: Charles Olson's first book CALL ME ISHAMEL Inscribed to Michael Sadleir

[Charles Agvent]

OLSON, Charles CALL ME ISHMAEL
Reynal & Hitchcock New York (1947) First Edition of author's first book, a study 
of Melville's MOBY DICK. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "for 
Michael Sadleir/who, so early, made Melville/available again to men/With my deep 
respect/to him/Charles Olson/Washington,/May, 1948." Sadleir--publisher, author, 
book collector-- was responsible, along with Raymond Weaver, for the 
resuscitation of Melville's career. Not only did he produce the first 
bibliography of Melville, he also helped produce the first complete collected 
edition of Melville's works, the Constable Edition of the 1920s which marked the 
first publication of BILLY BUDD.  Very Good in dustwrapper with some chipping. 
Superb association!   $2500.00
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