[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Melville's OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1847

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MELVILLE, Herman. OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS; 
BEING A SEQUEL TO THE "RESIDENCE IN THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS" London: John 
Murray, 1847. First Edition. Contemporary half calf with matching 
corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-ruled spine with recent 
gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; xiii, 321 pages, no terminal 
ads. BAL 13655: State B of page 209, no priority. Illustrated with a 
frontispiece map. First printing of Melville's second book, preceding 
the American edition by several weeks. Based on the mutiny on the Julia 
and Melville's adventures as in Tahiti. Lightly foxed; recently and 
neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Very Good to Near Fine. 	 
$850.00

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