Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 13,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MELVILLE, HERMAN. Narrative of Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life. 8vo, publisher's decoratively blindstamped red cloth, slightly cocked, spine ends and tips very lightly bumped with slight loss, otherwise unusually bright; custom cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-lettered morocco label. London: John Murray, 1846

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first edition of melville's first book,