[Rarebooks] FS: Herman Melville's First Book, 1846, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $950 NET

MELVILLE, Herman. NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE AMONG THE 
NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; OR, A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN 
LIFE. London: John Murray, 1846. First Edition. Contemporary half calf 
leather with matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, 
gilt-ruled spine with two matching gilt-lettered black morocco spine 
labels; xviii, 285 pages, no terminal ads. BAL 13652: First Issue of 
page 19. Illustrated with a map at page xviii with an additional copy of 
the map on old paper tipped in before the title page. 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. Scattered, light foxing; 
minor wear to the top of the spine. Very Good to Near Fine.

Other than MOBY DICK, the most widely read of Melville's novels. 
(#015391)        $1,500.00

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