first edition Hardcover
1853 · New York
by [MELVILLE, Herman]
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Place, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. First printed appearance. Octavo. pp. [i-iii] iv-vi, [1] 2-690. Publisher’s light green decorative cloth, gilt spine, cream-yellow endpapers. Binder’s ticket on front pastedown: “E.A. Fuller Book-binder, Burlington, Vt.” Contemporary owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper. A handsome ex-library copy with small paper bookplate lightly tipped onto the front pastedown (easily removable) and blind-embossed stamp on title page. Spine lightly sunned, wear to the corners and spine at foot and crown, light dampstain to the foot of the gutter and to the fore-edge margin of pp. 546-552, (truncated)
(856) 456-8008
