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FIRST BOOK MELVILLE, HERMAN. Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives. 8vo, contemporary green cloth with calf gilt spine label, either a publisher's remainder binding or an early rebinding from BAL's wrapper issue variant A; title glued in firmly, with light pulling on verso, half-title remains bound at rear, bound without publisher's catalogue; custom cloth folding box. first english edition, first issue, of melville's first book bound from the edition in wrappers. London: John Murray, 1846
