Works. [Volumes I to XII].

London: Constable, 1922-1923.

Price: $4,000.00


About the item

Standard Edition. One of 750 sets, numbered and initialled by the publisher. 12 vols. 8vo. Contemporary blue half-morocco with gilt, for Brentano’s. Slightest traces of rubbing to three volumes. BAL 13680.

Item #323674

Publication of this edition contributed materially to the renewal of interest in Melville’s writings. This set is complete through Vol. 12, The Confidence Man (1923), which includes a bibliography of first editions of Melville’s prose writings compiled by Michael Sadleir. Volumes 13 to 16 were published in 1924.