London: Richard Bentley, 1853 2 vols. 8vo. iv, 322 pp.; iv, 315 pp. First English Edition, Second Issue— unsold sheets were reissued by Bentley in 1853 with new title leaves (BAL 13661). Bound in three-quarter morocco with marbled boards; burgundy morocco title labels, gilt-stamped rules, and five raised bands to the spines. A very fine set.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2006-10-26
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Autograph Letter Signed, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 29 October 1858. Single sheet of folded wove writing paper, blind-stamped "Paris" in the upper left Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-05-27
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) The Works , Standard Edition. London/Bombay/Sydney: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922. Sixteen octavo volumes, limited edition, number 463 of 750 copies; uniformly Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Moby Dick, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) New York: Random House, 1930. First trade edition, octavo, with original publisher's dust jacket, in Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-15
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Moby Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 1851. 12mo, bound in publisher's dark brown cloth, with Harper Brother's circular Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Moby Dick , Illustrated and Inscribed by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). New York: Random House, 1930. Trade edition, octavo, in publisher's black cloth, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas . New York: Wiley and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
Melville, Herman (1819-1891), The Piazza Tales , New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856, first edition, later half morocco, 12mo, (good, minor dampstaining to first Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-11-13
Melville, Herman (1819-1891), Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Sea; being a Sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands" , London: Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-18
Melville, Herman (1819-1891), Omoo; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas , New York: 1847, first American edition, original gilt pictorial and stamped Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-19
Melville, Herman (1819-1891), Three titles in four volumes, Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands , Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-19
