first edition 8vo
1922 · Princeton
by Melville, Herman
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922. First Edition, #155 of 1675 copies. 8vo. Cloth and boards. VG. Bookplate of Benjamin F. Houston. First Edition, #155 of 1675 copies. 8vo. "None of the sketches which follows has heretofore been gathered into a book..." - Editor's note. The collection includes an Essay of Melville's on Hawthorne, "Hawthorne and His Mosses," written while they were neighbors in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. BAL 13681 (Inventory #: 368463)