[Rarebooks] Constable Melville Complete Works

[Garry R Austin]

We offer the following volumes, 1-12 of 16 of the Standard Edition of Herman Melville's Complete Works published in London by Constable, 1922-1924. Postpaid to the trade at $2000 net. These are handsome volumes in the original blind stamped blue cloth. Descriptions are complete below. 

The Collected Works of Herman Melville

Melville, Herman. Typee; A Peep At Polynesian Life. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Limited to 750 copies, Volume I; octavo; pp. xvii, (i), 366; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good. Spine lightly faded.

Omoo; Adventures In The South Seas. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume II; octavo; pp. xiv, 375; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good. A small faded circular spot, the size of a dime, at top right corner of front board

Mardi And A Voyage Thither, Volume 1. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume III; octavo; pp. xii, 369; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

Mardi And A Voyage Thither, Volume 2. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume IV; octavo; pp. viii, 400; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

Redburn; His First Voyage; Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son of a Gentleman in the Merchant Service. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume V; octavo; pp. x, 403; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

White Jacket; The World In A Man-Of-War. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume VI; octavo; pp. xi, (i), 357; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

Moby-Dick Or The Whale, Volume 1. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume VII; octavo; pp. xxiii, (i), 504; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

Moby-Dick Or The Whale, Volume 2. London: Constable & Co. 1922.
Standard Edition, Volume VIII; octavo; pp. vii, (i), 367, (1); blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

Pierre Or The Ambiguities. London: Constable & Co. 1923.
Standard Edition, Volume IX; octavo; pp. viii, 505; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

The Piazza Tales. London: Constable & Co. 1923.
Standard Edition, Volume X; octavo; pp. (iv), 271; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

Israel Potter; His Fifty Years of Exile. London: Constable & Co. 1923.
Standard Edition, Volume XI; octavo; pp. x, 225; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

The Confidence-Man, His Masquerade. London: Constable & Co. 1923.
Standard Edition, Volume XII; octavo; pp. viii, 358 with Bibliography of First Editions; blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; burgundy endpapers; Very good.

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