Mardi

2 volumes. [xii]-365 pages; [xii]-387+[8 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") Original blind stamped plum cloth, gilt title to spines, Harpers gilt logo at base of spine with yellow coated end-papers in a three quarter leather in custom made half leather over marbled boards slipcase. (BAL 13658) First American edition. Mardi (the Polynesian word meaning "the world") is… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. First American Edition. Original covers of brown embossed cloth. In Good condition with scattered light foxing and owner's inscription ("John R. Adams, 1849") on flyleaves. Volume I has been rebacked retaining the original covers and most of the spine. Volume II has a small loss to the… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. The is the First American Edition. Size: 12mo. This is a mixed set of the First American Edition with Volume I being three quarters gilt stamped leather and black pebbled cloth over boards, and the second volume green gilt stamped and blind… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street, 1849. 2 vols. 8vo, original green cloth. Vol. 1: 365 pp.; Vol. 2: 387, [1 blank] pp., 8 pp. of ads. First American edition of Melville's third book. His first two books, Typee and Omoo, were a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by his experiences as a sailor in… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849 Two volumes. First American edition. Original publisher's blue-green blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spines. A very good or better set with some light wear, some toning to spine, scattered spotting and small stains to cloth, former owner ink signature to first blank of volume II, usual scattered foxing to text. Overall, a very… Read more about this item

"For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be." Melville's third novel. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt. 8 pages of ads in the rear of volume II as called for. Bindings a touch skewed, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, usual scattered foxing, endpapers discolored by… Read more about this item

Signet Classics, 1964-01-01 Spine Wear, Cover Creased. See our Terms of Sale for a detailed description of condition notes. Paperback. Used - Very Good.

Harper & Brothers , New York, 1849. Good: some light stain to Volume I, becoming more pronounced toward rear of volume, substantial foxing to Volume II, stain to rear endpaper of Volume II. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches, xii, [13]-365; [v]-xii, [9]-387 pages, publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, moderate spotting to covers of Volume I, light wear to… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1849. An unusually fresh copy in the original cloth First American edition of Melville's third book, his first major full-length fiction, an allegorical romance set in the South Seas based on his own experiences there. This is an exceptionally fresh copy in the original cloth. Mardi was originally published in London earlier the same… Read more about this item

Boston: L. C. Page & Company. Good in Good dust jacket; Some pencil notes throughout, spine bumped and . slightly bowed. Jacket edge tears, spine yellowed, some small stains.. 1950. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Quite scarce in jacket.; 8vo; 580 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Melville's third book, containing the first glimpses of the rich symbolism and allegorical style that would later be more fully developed in Moby Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Octavo, original brown blind-stamped cloth. Two volumes. Provenance: with bookplates of Albert Henry Wiggin, the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spines in blind and gilt. Spines somewhat faded, neat repairs to head and foot of both volumes, preliminaries slightly foxed. All in all, a very good copy of Melville's third book. First American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Preceded by… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes, complete as issued. A very good copy of this classic Melville, in unfaded original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind (Volume II has some dampstaining to upper third of text extending from gutter, and spine has some puckering to foot of spine; bookplates expertly removed from… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Two volumes bound in publisher's plum cloth, decorated in blind with titles in gilt on spines; yellow coated endsheets. Very Good with fading to spine and wear at spine ends and lighter so to corners. Endsheets offset or browned at centers; Previous… Read more about this item

Independently Published, 2018. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. null First edition. Green cloth, gilt. Wear to spine ends and corners, moderate foxing throughout, as usual. Two volume set. Melville's first attempt at fiction.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition. Hard Cover. Very good. Mardi, (the Polynesian word meaning "the world") is Melville's philosophical novel recounting a voyage through fictional South Sea islands; it was a precursor to Moby Dick. This was first published in London, printed by Richard Bentley the same year. Two vols, sml 8vo, xii, 365pp;… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition of Melville's third novel. Title pages dated 1849, 8 pages of ads at the end of volume II. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering, xii, 13-365p; [5], x-xii, [1], 10-387p, 8p ads. First volume in fair condition; second volume good. Volume I has a badly chipped spine, front hinge… Read more about this item

Signet Classics, 1964-01-01. Paperback. Good.