[Rarebooks] FS: First Appearance of MOBY DICK
Charles Agvent
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Fri Sep 12 17:19:37 EDT 2014
(MELVILLE, Herman). "The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S
MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1851. First Edition. Half brown morocco leather with matching corners,
marbled boards, and two gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine labels; 864
pages. Illustrated with engravings. The first publication of any part of
MOBY DICK. The eight-page excerpt is noted as being "From 'THE WHALE."
The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper and
Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley." Discoloration to
the endpapers from the glue used in binding, contents very clean; covers
tight and firm. Near Fine. (#017544) $400.00
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