[Rarebooks] FS: True First Edition of Melville's OMOO, 1847, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $500 NET

MELVILLE, Herman. OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS; 
BEING A SEQUEL TO THE "RESIDENCE IN THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS" London: John 
Murray, 1847. First Edition. Contemporary half calf leather with 
matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-ruled spine with 
recent gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; xiii, 321 pages, no 
terminal ads. BAL 13655: State B of page 209, no priority. Illustrated 
with a frontispiece map. First printing of Melville's second book, 
preceding the American edition by several weeks. Based on the mutiny on 
the Julia and Melville's adventures as in Tahiti. Lightly foxed; 
recently and neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Very Good to 
Near Fine. (#015393)        $850.00

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