New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American Edition. Hardcover. Text quite clean with only light, even foxing. Cloth fresh with gilt bright on the spines. The first volume has some loss to the head and heel of the spine with a portion toward the bottom reattached; the second volume has some loss of cloth to the front joint. Very Good set. Two volumes in publisher's brown cloth; eight pages of terminal ads in the second volume. BAL 13658. Melville's third book, issued about a month after the three-volume London edition, and his first major full-length fiction, a novel based on his whaling voyage experiences in the South Seas. MOBY DICK would be published two years later. Early small book label of S. S. Boyd on the front pastedown of each volume.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 015394
Title: MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER
Author: MELVILLE, Herman
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Text quite clean with only light, even foxing. Cloth fresh with gilt bright on the spines. The first volume has some loss to the
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1849
Keywords: 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Nautical Fiction, Herman Melville, Polynesia, South Seas, First Book
Bookseller catalogs: 19th Century American Literature; First Book; Nautical Fiction;
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