Author: Melville, Herman
Title: Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands or, a Peep at Polynesian Life
Description: London, John Murray, 1846. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition of Melville's first book, preceding the American edition of the same year, which appeared a month later under its more familiar title, TYPEE. This London edition was set directly from Melville's manuscript. The New York, Wiley & Putnam US edition was set from proof sheets of the Murray edition. The bibliography of the Murray edition of 4048 copies is complex [2,500 in wrappers, priced half a crown, & five shillings for cloth], as noted in BAL with various issue point attending & no satisfactory publication sequence yet established. 8vo, xvi, (xvii-xviii), 285. This copy is the BAL First Edition, Second Issue, bound in contemporary half tree calf, gilt over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, the spine neatly laid down, with map on p.xviii; bound without catalogue & with 'Pomare' for 'Pomarea', p.19, line 1: originally released as vol. XV in Murray's Home and Colonial Library series. BAL 13652. 'Melville was the first author of genius to use the South Seas as material and most of those who followed saw the region through his eyes and adopted his patterns' Day 51 [Pacific Islands Literature, 100 Basic Books]. A very good copy. .
Keywords: Travel, Voyages & Exploration
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Title: Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands or, a Peep at Polynesian Life
Description: London, John Murray, 1846. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition of Melville's first book, preceding the American edition of the same year, which appeared a month later under its more familiar title, TYPEE. This London edition was set directly from Melville's manuscript. The New York, Wiley & Putnam US edition was set from proof sheets of the Murray edition. The bibliography of the Murray edition of 4048 copies is complex [2,500 in wrappers, priced half a crown, & five shillings for cloth], as noted in BAL with various issue point attending & no satisfactory publication sequence yet established. 8vo, xvi, (xvii-xviii), 285. This copy is the BAL First Edition, Second Issue, bound in contemporary half tree calf, gilt over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, the spine neatly laid down, with map on p.xviii; bound without catalogue & with 'Pomare' for 'Pomarea', p.19, line 1: originally released as vol. XV in Murray's Home and Colonial Library series. BAL 13652. 'Melville was the first author of genius to use the South Seas as material and most of those who followed saw the region through his eyes and adopted his patterns' Day 51 [Pacific Islands Literature, 100 Basic Books]. A very good copy. .
Keywords: Travel, Voyages & Exploration
Price: US$ 1170.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 33666
- Book number: 33666
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