[Minneapolis]: Indulgence Press, 1995. Edition limited to 126 copies, this is one of the 100 "regular" copies (the 26 "deluxe" copies have never been completed); narrow folio in sixes; pp. [6], 39, [7]; title-p. printed in ochre and black, the phrase "I would prefer not to…" printed in ochre across..... More
Franklin Center, Pa. The Franklin Library, 1982. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo, pp. [10], 3-341, [1]; original full green gilt-stamped morocco, silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, a.e.g.; fine, bright copy. More
Firenze: Bemporad-Marzocco, 1960. Settima edizione, large 8vo, pp. 207, [4]; 4 color plates; original white and blue pictorial boards (some minor soiling); edges a bit scuffed, else very good and sound. Abridged Italian translation. This edition not in OCLC as of December, 2013. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1942. 8vo, [10], 540; inserted color frontispiece and title page, plus 10 color plates by Schaeffer; original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket. The cloth with several rub marks along the joints and fore-edge leaving white marks; the dust jacket chipped at the corners..... More
Torino: S.A.I.E. Editrice, 1957. Large 8vo, pp. 150, [2]; original green pictorial boards; edges and corners bumped and rubbed, else mostly very good. Pressue stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson. Abridged Italian translation by Mario Giussani. Not in OCLC as of December, 2013. More
Franklin Center, Pa. The Franklin Library, 1984. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo, pp. [12], 526, [2]; original full blue gilt-stamped morocco, silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, a.e.g.; fine, bright copy. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [2], 14-390; lacks the publisher's ads at the rear making it impossible to distinguish between first and second issues; this copy once rebound, now disbound and the text block split in two - what is now known pejoratively as..... More
New York: Wiley & Putnam; London: John Murray, 1847. First edition, fourth printing of the revised edition of the author's first book, 2 vols. in 1, as issued, 8vo, pp. xiv, 149, [5], [151]-307, [1], plus 9 pages of ads paged [xv]-xxiii; integral frontispiece map; recent quarter calf-backed marbled boards..... More
Franklin Center, Pa. The Franklin Library, 1979. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 300; original full pictorial black gilt-stamped morocco, silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, a.e.g.; fine, bright copy. More
London, Bombay, Sydney: Constable and Co., Ltd, 1922-24. Edition limited to 750 copies (this, no. 460), signed by the publisher with initials, 16 volumes, 8vo, title pages printed in blue and black, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines; several spines unevenly sunned, bookseller's description tipped to front free endpaper of volume..... More
Folio, complete issue, removed from binding, else very good. Nearly a column and a half of text from Chapter 92, "The Last of the Jacket." The novel was published in New York by Harpers on March 21, 1850. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1847. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], [17]-389, [1], [xv]-xxiii (ads), [1], 16 (ads); integral frontispiece map; covers spotted, text lightly foxed as usual, top of spine a little chipped; a good, firm copy in orig. slate blindstamped cloth, gilt ship stamped central on..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1929]. First edition of Pierre to contain a preface, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 505; original orange cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine; moderate wear to extremities, fading and soiling overall; a good, sound copy. More
New York: A.L. Burt, n.d., [after 1892]. 8vo, pp. 374; frontispiece; a good, sound copy in orig. red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Reprinting of the United States Book Co. edition of 1892, the year following Melville's death, under the renewed copyright by Elizabeth Melville. More
