MELVILLE HERMAN Redburn His First Voyage

Sale 2188 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 1,680

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

MELVILLE, HERMAN. Redburn: His First Voyage. 8vo, original cloth, unevenly faded, spine ends and tips rubbed with some loss; foxed; contemporary owner's signatures and small embossed bookseller's ticket on front endpapers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849

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first edition, first issue with 14 pages of ads instead of 18. There was only a single printing of 4,508 copies; by the time of the Harper fire of 1853, 2,433 copies had been bound in cloth and 1,955 in wrappers. The fire destroyed the 120 remaining unbound copies and 176 unsold bound copies. BAL 13660.