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MELVILLE, Herbert (1819-1891). Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846.
2 volumes in one, 8vo (178 x 114 mm). Half-titles; frontispiece map before part I; 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end of part I. (Some very light marginal browning.) Contemporary half brown morocco, marbled sides, gilt-lettered spine (extremities rubbed).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, preceded by a London edition of the same year. Melville based his first work on the month he spent living among the people in the Marquesas, where he found himself after deserting the whaling ship Achsunet in 1841. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime. BAL 13653.
2 volumes in one, 8vo (178 x 114 mm). Half-titles; frontispiece map before part I; 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end of part I. (Some very light marginal browning.) Contemporary half brown morocco, marbled sides, gilt-lettered spine (extremities rubbed).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, preceded by a London edition of the same year. Melville based his first work on the month he spent living among the people in the Marquesas, where he found himself after deserting the whaling ship Achsunet in 1841. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime. BAL 13653.
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