New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First Edition. thick 8vo., viii, 864pp.; VG-; spine brown cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamping, same on front board, only blind-stamping on rear board; protected with a mylar covering; cloth on front hinge separated, cloth on spine beginning to peel, still attached; some wear to rear hinge, corners, head and tail of spine; mild foxing throughout; small booksellers sticker on front pastedown; First publication of any part of Moby Dick; "The Town-Ho's Story" on page 658, which became Chapter 54 of the novel, still at that time titled "The Whale,"; NM consignment; shelved case 2. More about HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. VOLUME III. JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1851. [CONTAINS MOBY-DICK, THE...

New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Issue. 10mo; pp 1478; VG-/no-DJ; dark blue spine with gilt text; typo on title page, author's name misspelled (see enclosed letter from publisher); cloth has slight wear to exterior boards; strong boards; text block shows light wear to exterior edges; illustrated endpapers; interior clean. More about Herman Melville: Pierre, or The Ambiguous; Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile; The...

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Octavo; VG-/no-DJ; Spine dark grey with very faded gilded letters; Book is in protective plastic covering, has no DJ but has paper with cover graphic inside protective covering; Boards strong, slightly bowed, binding strong, some webbing visible where front end paper connects to binding, spine very slightly cocked, boards have wear to edges and corners, pastedowns have very occasional wear at edges; Textblock has foxing and spots around edges, interior has spotting on some pages throughout but is clean and unmarked; 299pp. More about Omoo

New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1931. Octavo; G+; Hardcover in slipcase; Spine black with gold print; Slipcase top edges partially torn, all corners bumped, some scratching, rubbing; Boards in black cloth with gold print, some spotting, wear to spine cap; Textblock has green top edge, name written on endpapers, light soiling of endpapers, spine cracked at title page; vi, 1660 pages, 7 leaves of color plates. More about ROMANCES OF HERMAN MELVILLE

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1937. Octavo; pp 822; G+/no-DJ; sunned gray spine with gilt text and gilt illustration; gilt borders and illustration to front; cloth has some scratches to front and partially sunned rear board; chipping to spine edges; text block has some age toning to exterior edges; light toning to interior; numerous woodcut illustrations; frontispiece; minor cracking to front gutter. More about Moby Dick or the Whale

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited Edition. 8vo., xxviii, 409pp.; VG; spine white with some lettor and black, black lettering; housed in a VG slipcase; torn and tattered glassine wrapper; text block and interior clean; of the limited edition of 1500 copies SIGNED by Covarrubias, this is number 1042; GP consignment; shelved case 2. More about TYPEE - A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS [SIGNED