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Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
London: John Murray, 1846. First English edition, first issue (with "Pomarea" in line one, p. 19). 8vo. xvi, 285, (1), 16 (ads, dated March, 1846). Illustrated with one map facing p. (1). Original red cloth, binder's variant A, stamped in blind and in gilt, unobtrusively rebacked with original spine laid down, corners moderately worn; some fore-edge text leaves lightly creased; rear hinge lightly worn; book-plate of bibliophile Kenneth Rapoport on front paste-down. BAL 13652
A handsome first edition of Melville's first book, more commonly known as "Typee." Published a month before the American edition.
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