[Rarebooks] FS: Melville's Narrative of a Four Months' Residence, 1846, First Edition

[Charles Agvent]

 From our internet catalog--HAWTHORNE, HOLMES & MELVILLE--recently 
posted on our website: http://www.charlesagvent.com. It contains 50 fine 
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MELVILLE, Herman. NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE AMONG THE 
NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; OR, A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN 
LIFE bound with THE STORY OF TOBY, A SEQUEL TO "TYPEE," BY THE AUTHOR OF 
THAT WORK. London: John Murray, 1846. First Edition. Contemporary half 
calf with matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-ruled 
spine with a new gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; xviii, 301 
pages; no terminal ads. BAL 13652: Second Issue of page 19. Illustrated 
with a map at page xviii. First printing of Melville's first book, 
issued in an edition of 4,048 copies and preceding the American edition, 
titled TYPEE, of the same year. Largely based upon the author's 
experience living in the Marquesas after he deserted from the whaler 
Acushnet in 1842. This copy has "The Story of Toby" sequel bound at the 
end with a half-title page and continuous pagination. According to BAL, 
the publishing history of this book "is further complicated by the 
publication of an additional chapter, 'The Story of Toby,' which was 
first published (not as a separate) in the United States in August, 
1846; and, in London (as pamphlet) in October, 1846." BAL also notes the 
earliest located advertisement for a printing with the sequel to 1 
December 1846. Scattered, light foxing; slight pulling of the leather to 
the top of the spine. Very Good or better.
Other than MOBY DICK, the most widely read of Melville's novels. 		$1,200.00

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