[Rarebooks] FS: HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD, MA, with Herman Melville interest, price greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS $750    NOW $450 NET

[MELVILLE, Herman] SMITH, J. E. A. (compiler). THE HISTORY OF 
PITTSFIELD, (BERKSHIRE COUNTY,) MASSACHUSETTS, FROM THE YEAR 1800 TO THE 
YEAR 1876. Springfield : C. W. Bryan & Co., 1876. First Edition. Small 
quarto (6" x 9-1/2") in publisher's black cloth; xi, 725, [1] pages. 
Illustrated with a folding map, portraits, and engravings. BAL 13675. 
Contains three mentions of Herman Melville noted in the index (pages 7, 
8, and 664, the first mentioning MOBY DICK). In addition there is an 
article on Thomas Melville on pages 206-208 about which BAL states: 
"presumably Melville supplied material for it. On pp. 399-400 is a 
direct quotation from a 'relative' of Thomas Melville, identified in the 
text as a nephew, i.e., Herman Melville." The lightest of wear to the 
spine tips. Unusually Fine copy of this uncommon title. (#015398)        
$450.00

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