Price: $150
London: Nonesuch Press. Limited edition, one of 1650 copies. The Text of this edition of 'Benito Cereno' illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, is reproduced from that of the first (1856) edition of' Piazza Tales'. It is printed in the Walbaum type with the pictures hand-colourede through stencils at the Curwen..... Read More Item Details for Benito Cereno Add to Wish List
Item #40927
Price: $15,000
Chicago: Lakeside Press, issued by Random House, 1930. Kent, Rockwell. One of 1000 sets. A nice set of one of the most famous illustrated American books of the twentieth century. In 1926 The Lakeside Press launched their ‘Four American Books’ campaign that aimed to produce illustrated books to rival those..... Read More Item Details for Moby Dick, or the Whale Add to Wish List
Item #374720
Price: $6,500
New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 321 Broadway, 1857. First American edition. May have been published simultaneously in London and New York. The book appeared 1 April 1857, but was not deposited for copyright until 2 May. Dix, Edwards went out of business a few weeks later. This copy has..... Read More Item Details for The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Add to Wish List
Item #373842
Price: $4,500
New York: Harper & Bros, 1847. First American edition of the author's second book. Read More Item Details for Omoo: A Narrative of Adventure in the South Seas Add to Wish List
Item #373841
Price: $4,000
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition of Melville's first collection of poetry. Read More Item Details for Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Add to Wish List
Item #373840
Price: $7,500
London, Bombay & Sydney: Constable & Co, 1922-24. Standard Edition, limited to 750 copies of which this is number 637. Vol. 12 includes a bibliography of the prose works by Michael Sadleir. Vol. 13 is first printing of the famous novella of Billy Budd, edited by Raymond M. Weaver who..... Read More Item Details for The Works of … Add to Wish List
Item #370383
Price: $15,000
104 E. 26th St. [New York]: 6 January 1888. In December, Rossiter Johnson, editor of various encyclopedias, dictionaries, anthologies, and volumes of abridged classics (including Melville's piece "The Bell-Tower" in the third volume, "Tragedy" (1875), of his Little Classics, 1874-81), wrote to Melville requesting that he contribute to a work..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed ("H. Melville"), to Rossiter Johnson Add to Wish List
Item #369787
Price: $6,000
New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. First Edition. One the great collections of short fiction in American literature, containing Melville's most famous short stories, including “Bartleby,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Encantadas”, etc., most of which had originally been published in Putnam's. The nicer of two copies from Doheny's collection, a nice..... Read More Item Details for The Piazza Tales Add to Wish List
Item #368688
Price: $200
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922. First Edition, #155 of 1675 copies. “None of the sketches which follows has heretofore been gathered into a book…” - Editor's note. The collection includes an Essay of Melville’s on Hawthorne, “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” written while they were neighbors in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Read More Item Details for The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches, With an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin Add to Wish List
Item #368463
Price: $200
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922. First Trade edition [#173 of 1500 copies (there were also 175 deluxe copies on French handmade paper)]. The contents include an introductory note by Henry Chapin and the following poems: John Marr and other poems/ -- Sea pieces/ --Poems from Timoleon/ --Supplement/ --Poems from Battle..... Read More Item Details for John Marr and Other Poems With an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin Add to Wish List
Item #368257
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Price: $275
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., London: Sampson Low, Son & Co, 1854. First edition. Contains the first appearance of Melville's “The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles” (as by “Salvator R. Tarnmoor”) commencing pages 311, 345 and 460. This work was collected later in "Piazza Tales" (1856) and first published..... Read More Item Details for The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, [in:] Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art. Vol. III. January to June 1854 Add to Wish List
Item #365303
Price: $1,250
Boston: Redding & Co, 1852. First edition. A travel guide dedicated to the "Summer Ramblers on the Berkshire Hills," which mentions the homes of several authors. The author notes that "upon a little hill, around which the Housatonic makes a graceful curve, is the villa of Oliver Wendell Holmes...Adjoining the..... Read More Item Details for Taghconic; Or Letters and Legends about our Summer Home Add to Wish List
Item #353965
Price: $900
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Mardi: and a Voyage Thither Add to Wish List
Item #353464
Price: $400
London: George Routledge & Co., Soho Square, 1850. The Revised Edition, with a Sequel off Typee. Read More Item Details for Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas WITH Omoo: A Naarative of Adventures in the South Seas Add to Wish List
Item #333238
Price: $1,250
Buenos Aires: Edicom, [1969]. Second edition (first published in 1943). Allusions to Melville run through the essays of Borges, and in his essay on Hawthorne (in Other Inquisitions), Borges writes, “we have already entered the world of Herman Melville, of Kafka — a world of enigmatic punishments and indecipherable sins”..... Read More Item Details for Bartleby. Prólogo y traducción de Jorge Luis Borges Add to Wish List
Item #326888
Price: $1,250
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American edition. The first American edition of Melville’s second novel, in the publisher’s cloth binding. Read More Item Details for Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas Add to Wish List
Item #263731
Price: $750
New York: Wiley and Putnam. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846. Revised edition, third printing, mixed state (p. 101, l. 3 from bottom reading “grove“ as in fourth printing). The revised edition of Melville‘s first book, with the sequel “The Story of Toby” on pp. 293-307. Issued as part I...... Read More Item Details for Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas … Part I; … Part II Add to Wish List
Item #261846
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Price: $850
London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, first issue (p. 19, l. 1 reads “Pomarea”). First edition of Melville’s first work. Read More Item Details for [Typee] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence Among the Native of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life Add to Wish List
Item #261634
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Price: $4,500
London: John Murray, 1846-7. First editions of Melville’s first two novels: Typee in first issue, p.19 l.1 reading “Pomarea”; Omoo with signature P present on p. 209 (BAL state A). Melville’s first novel was based upon his experiences living in the Marquesas after he deserted from the whaler Acushnet in..... Read More Item Details for [Typee.] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesa Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life [with:] Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas Add to Wish List
Item #234587
Price: $300
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. Third Edition. Read More Item Details for Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas Add to Wish List
Item #62841