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Lot 161
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.
8vo. Half-title printed in red, title-page printed in black and red; frontispiece map. (Some spotting throughout, a few stains.) Original publisher’s green cloth blocked in blind, upper cover with central gilt ship, gilt-lettered on spine, marbled endpapers (old repairs to spine ends, overall wear, staining).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, preceded by a London edition of the same year (see previous lot). BAL 13656.