[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Melville's MARDI, 1849

[Charles Agvent]

MELVILLE, Herman. MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER. New York: Harper & 
Brothers, 1849. First American Edition. Two volumes in publisher's brown 
cloth; eight pages of terminal ads in the second volume. BAL 13658. 
Melville's third book, issued about a month after the three-volume 
London edition, and his first major full-length fiction, a novel based 
on his whaling voyage experiences in the South Seas. Early small book 
label of S. S. Boyd on the front pastedown of each volume. Text quite 
clean with only light, even foxing. Cloth fresh with gilt bright on the 
spines. The first volume has some loss to the head and heel of the spine 
with a portion toward the bottom reattached; the second volume has some 
loss of cloth to the front joint.  Very Good set (#015394)        $1,500.00

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