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"If, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
The Whale

Herman Melville, 1851

    Price Realised USD 81,900
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    The Whale

    Herman Melville, 1851

    Price Realised USD 81,900
    Price Realised USD 81,900
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    MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). The Whale. London: Richard Bentley, 1851.

    Triple-decker first edition of Melville's masterpiece, preceding the American printing by a month and containing substantial textual differences. The present is a very clean copy in a sympathetic binding. BAL 13663; Grolier American 60; Sadleir Excursions 1685.

    Three volumes, octavo (190 x 120mm). Half-title in volume one only, as called for. Modern half morocco over marbled boards.
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