Moby-Dick, or, the Whale / by Herman Melville, author of "Typee," "Omoo," "Redburn," "Mardi," "White-jacket."

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First American edition of what has been called the greatest American novel.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Moby Dick
Main Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (Author)
Corporate Author: Harper & Brothers (Publisher)
Other Authors: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 (Dedicatee)
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Harper & Brothers ; Richard Bentley, 1851.
Subjects:
Ahab, > Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Whaling ships > Fiction.
Ship captains > Fiction.
Mentally ill > Fiction.
Whaling > Fiction.
Whales > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Sea fiction.
Publishers' advertisements.
Publishers' advertisements > New York (State) > New York > 19th century.
Genre:
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Sea fiction.
Publishers' advertisements.
Publishers' advertisements
Ownership and Custodial History:
Inscription in an early hand on recto of third front fly-leaf: "B C. Williams [Walliams?], from [...]" (partially washed); stamp in red ink on recto of thrid front fly-leaf: "[...]rk" (mostly washed); marginal markings in pencil in numerous locations throughout; mathematical notes in pencil on verso of second front fly-leaf (mostly erased); bookseller's description of this copy, by James Cummins Bookseller, New York City, along with bookseller's display card and MSU Libraries exhibition label, available in MSS 466.
Local Note:
MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 273.
Binding Information:
In publisher's purple-brown cloth (the Bibliography of American literature's "first binding"); circular device of Harper & Sons blind stamped in center of both boards; gilt-lettered and -decorated spine (rebacked, with original spine laid down); orange coated end-papers.
Physical Description:xxiii, 634, [10] pages ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
Moby-Dick.
Whale.
Format: Book

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