Books and Manuscripts

Melville, Herman
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1857. First edition. 8vo. vi, 394 pp. Publisher's brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards lightly rubbed, light wear to corners and head of spine, gilt slightly faded; all edges trimmed; dark green-blue endpapers, two small abrasions on front paste-down from removed labels, armorial book-plate of Christopher Temple Emmet on front paste-down; some text leaves unopened; in brown cloth fall-down-back box. BAL 13670

A handsome and unsophisticated first edition of Melville's final novel.