MELVILLE HERMAN Pierre; or The Ambiguities

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MELVILLE, HERMAN. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, tiny chip to head of spine, mild rubbing to board edges and joints; top edges gilt; original blind-stamped, gilt-lettered purple cloth bound in at end, some very occasional minor foxing, else clean. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852

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first edition, attractively rebound, retaining original covers. The follow-up to Moby-Dick. The notorious opprobrium of the critics towards Melville's later novels likely reached their zenith as regards the reception of Pierre, with the objections such that his sanity was called into question. Today, the work is considered perhaps 'the best psychological novel that had yet been written in English.' (Higgins and Parker, p. 196). BAL 13666.