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Lot 159
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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Lot Description
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
2 volumes in one, 8vo. Frontispiece map. (Some spotting or staining to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine gilt-lettered, laid over modern blue cloth (spine sunned, gilt faded). Provenance: The Fraser-Hickson Institute of Montreal (blind-stamp on part I title-page and 6 text leaves).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, preceded by a London edition of the same year (see previous lot). BAL 13653 (Binding Variant A, Cloth [no priority]).