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Lot 163
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,000
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Lot Description
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Redburn: His First Voyage. New York: Harper, 1849.
8vo. (Some spotting throughout.) Original publisher’s blue cloth blocked in blind, spine gilt-lettered, yellow endpapers (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some soiling to endpapers as often). Provenance: W. H. Jewett (signature, 1849); Skaneateles Library Association (blind-stamp on title, gift bookplate from William Marvin).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing, with extended advertisements at end, published in the same year as the first London edition. BAL 13660.