MARDI: and A Voyage Thither. In Two Volumes.
[Melville's first fiction - fine] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 8 pp Vol II undated ads. Original blind-stamped green-grey cloth. First American Edition of Melville's first novel, an allegorical romance that was preceded only by the nonfictional TYPEE (1846) and OMOO (1847). As Melville indicates in his Preface, ".......