first edition Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo
1854 · New York
by [Melville, Herman]
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., London: Sampson Low, Son & Co, 1854. First edition. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco and cloth sides, spine titled in gilt. Head rubbed. Very good. First edition. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains the first appearance of Melville's “The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles” (as by “Salvator R. Tarnmoor”) commencing pages 311, 345 and 460. This work was collected later in "Piazza Tales" (1856) and first published separately in 1940 at the Grabhorn Press.
In instalments beginning on pages 379 and 473 is the first appearance of James Russell Lowell's "Fireside Travels" which would in 1864 be collected in "Fireside Travels." There is a four-part work entitled "Notes from my Knapsack" about a journey through Texas and Mexico (commencing pages 170, 252, 365 and 660) and an amusing article entitled "Adventure on the Plains." Most of the articles, stories and poems are unsigned. Longfellow, Thoreau, Bayard Taylor, C. D. Warner, Cooper and C. E. Norton are among the other authors who contributed to Putnam's Monthly over its early years. It was edited by C. F. Briggs with G. W. Curtis and Parke Godwin as associate editors. (Inventory #: 365303)
In instalments beginning on pages 379 and 473 is the first appearance of James Russell Lowell's "Fireside Travels" which would in 1864 be collected in "Fireside Travels." There is a four-part work entitled "Notes from my Knapsack" about a journey through Texas and Mexico (commencing pages 170, 252, 365 and 660) and an amusing article entitled "Adventure on the Plains." Most of the articles, stories and poems are unsigned. Longfellow, Thoreau, Bayard Taylor, C. D. Warner, Cooper and C. E. Norton are among the other authors who contributed to Putnam's Monthly over its early years. It was edited by C. F. Briggs with G. W. Curtis and Parke Godwin as associate editors. (Inventory #: 365303)
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