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Herman Melville, Moby Dick, first edition, 1851. Peter Harrington Rare Books.

MELVILLE, Herman, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers; Richard Bentley, London, 1851. You can view this item on our website here: http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare... Presented by Ben Houston from Peter Harrington Rare Books. Duodecimo. Original purple-brown cloth, publisher’s devices to each board in blind, titles to spine gilt, orange coated endpapers. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Cloth a little faded and rubbed, small chip to headcap, some of the usual foxing associated with this title but lighter than often, a very good copy. First American edition, in the first binding with orange endpapers and the publisher’s device stamped centrally on the sides. With the author’s clipped signature laid in. The American edition was the first to appear under the familiar title and was set from Melville’s original manuscript. The Whale, issued shortly before in London, was set from New York sheets, with Melville’s alterations. The American edition contains some 35 passages not present in the English edition. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, first edition, 1851. Peter Harrington Rare Books.    • Herman Melville, Moby Dick, first edi...