Herman Melville (1819-1891) Mardi: and a Voyage Thither. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849.

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Mardi: and a Voyage Thither.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849.

First American edition, two octavo volumes; with 8 pp. of advertisements at the rear of vol. II; bound in publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, with stamped blind rule at 1/8 in. below spine head, yellow coated endpapers (pale foxing, concentrated at margins, a few open corner tears not affecting text; spines and sections of the lower panels sunned, minor chipping to spines, extremities rubbed, bookplate removed from lower pastedown of vol. I, inked ownership inscription to front free endpapers of each); 7 3/8 x 5 in.

BAL 13658.

Provenance: J. Harsen Purdy, a New York collector of fine prints (armorial bookplate to front pastedown in vol. I).

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