[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Melville's First Book, 1846

[Charles Agvent]

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 with the half-title page 
present. 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. Text very clean, free from foxing; rubbing and light edgewear to 
the binding. Very Good to Near Fine.

Other than MOBY DICK, the most widely read of Melville's novels. 
(#015391)        $1,000

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