Herman Melville | A collection of five first editions, 1846-1850

Melville, Herman

A collection of five first editions, comprising:

i) Typee. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 2 volumes bound in one, two title-pages and half-titles, frontispiece map, 4pp. of publisher’s advertisements at end, original navy cloth, ruled and stamped in blind, spine gilt, collector’s box, browning and spotting throughout, rubbed;

ii) Omoo. London: Murray, 1847. FIRST EDITION, chart map frontispiece, 16pp. of publisher’s advertisements at end, original red cloth stamped in blind, cream endpapers, foxing, hinges starting, boards worn and soiled, parts of spine detaching;

iii) Omoo. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, title-page in red and black, chart map frontispiece, 26pp. of advertisements at end, original cloth with ship design stamped in gilt, spine gilt, marbled endpapers, collector’s chemise and slipcase, foxing, rubbed and sunned; 

iv) Redburn. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1849. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, with extended publisher’s advertisements at end, original plum cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt, yellow endpapers, foxing, boards sunned;

v) White-Jacket. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 6pp. of publisher’s advertisements, brown cloth with Harper and Brothers New York stamped at centre, previous ownership inscription, foxing, rubbed, cloth worn at extremities;

all 8vo, (5)

LITERATURE:

BAL 13653, 13655, 13656, 13660, 13662