Moby-Dick, or, the Whale / by Herman Melville, author of "Typee," "Omoo," "Redburn," "Mardi," "White-jacket."
First American edition of what has been called the greatest American novel.
| Uniform Title: | Moby Dick
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York : London :
Harper & Brothers ; Richard Bentley,
1851.
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| 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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| 563 | |a 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. |5 MiEM | ||
| 590 | |a MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 273. | ||
| 500 | |a Not the same edition as the one issued slightly earlier by Bentley in London under title "The whale". "The publishers used as their text Melville's original manuscript. The Whale, as issued in London, was set from New York sheets, with Melville's alterations."--Bibliography of American literature. | ||
| 500 | |a Page [iii]: "In token of my admiration for his genius, this book is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne." | ||
| 500 | |a Publisher's advertisements: full-page advertisements for Melville's White-jacket, Omoo, Mardi, Typee, and Redburn (pages [639]-[641]) and "Choice works for libraries just published ..." (page [642]). | ||
| 510 | 4 | |a Grolier Club. One hundred influential American books printed before 1900, |c 60 | |
| 510 | 4 | |a Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, |c 13664 | |
| 510 | 4 | |a Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, |c 1701 | |
| 510 | 4 | |a Tanselle, G.T. Checklist of editions of Moby-Dick, 1851-1976, |c 2 | |
| 520 | |a First American edition of what has been called the greatest American novel. | ||
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