Author: Melville, Herman
Title: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas with Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet. [Two Volumes in One. ]
Description: New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. 8vo. 325 pp. Very Good, Blue Leather on Blue Cloth (modern commercial binding), with minor stains, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; marginal foxing throughout, ink blotches, & staining in text block; staining on end papers & edges of text block; some pencil scribbles on end papers; shelf wear. Illustrated. Provenance: John Ruyle [bookplate]. Title page for Vol. II appears after p. 166. First US Edition, preceding publication of First Edition (issued in the UK) by a few days. .

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