[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, ".......
during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; the Revised Edition, with a Sequel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. 7 pp undated ads (primarily for OMOO). Original blind-stamped green cloth. "The Revised Edition, with a Sequel," later Harper printing. TYPEE was Melville's first book, first published.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition, first printing, first binding -- published about two months after Bentley's London edition. Based on Melville's experience of service on board the man-of-war "United States" in 1843-1844, the narrative covers a voyage from.....
