Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume VIII (8) December 1853 - May 1854
by [Melville, Herman; Charles Dickens; W. M. Thackeray]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes Melville's short story "Cock a Doodle Doo - The Crowing of the Cock Beneventano" on page 77 - 86, Charles Dickens' "School Boy Stories", and chapters 4 - 20 of Thackeray's "The Newcomes." Bound in three quarter black leather with maroon cloth covered boards and gilt title... Read More
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition of Melville's second novel. This story is based on Melville's adventures and experiences during his years at sea between 1839-1844. It has been professionally rebacked in handsome dark green leather with gilt titling and elaborate ornaments to spine. The front cover features a gilt ship... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXII (32), Number 190 March 1866
by [Melville, Herman; Wilkie Collins]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes the first printing of Melville's poem "The Cumberland" on page 474. Also includes chapters from "Armadale" by Wilkie Collins. In the original paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Heavy chipping / loss to paper on top and bottom of spine (about two inches... Read More
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine Volumes IV and V (4 and 5) [Israel Potter; Or, Fifty Years of Exile] Two Volumes
by [Melville, Herman]
New York: G.P. Putnam & Col, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Scarce. The first appearance of Israel Potter, Melville’s novel about the Revolutionary War, was published in six parts in Putnam’s Magazine between July 1854 - March 1855. It was published in book form in March 1855. Loosely based on a real person, Israel Potter recounts the life... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume IX (9) June to November 1854
by [Melville, Herman]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This volume contains three early short stories by Herman Melville: "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" (pages 95-101), "The Happy Failure" (pages 196-199), and "The Fiddler" (pages 536-539). They were published anonymously. Includes articles about a lunatic asylum, "idiots", galvanoplasty, gambling houses in Germany, rights and wrongs... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXII (32) December 1865 to May 1866
by [Melville, Herman; Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes Melville's poems "The March to the Sea" on page 366, "The Cumerland" on page 474, and "Philip" on page 640. Also includes the conclusion of "Our Mutual Friend" by Dickens, "Livingston's Last African Expedition", and chapters from Wilkie Collins "Armadale." Bound in the three quarter black leather... Read More
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art Volume VII (7)
by Melville, Herman
New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This volume contains two of Herman Melville’s less well-known short stories, “I and My Chimney” (pages 269-283) and “The Apple Tree Table: or Original Spiritual Manifestation” (pages 465-475). The stories were not reprinted until 1922 when Princeton University published them in a collection of Melville stories in a... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume X (10) December 1854 - May 1855
by [Melville, Herman; Charles Dickens; W.M. Thackeray]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes Melville's short story "The Paradise of Bachellors and the Tautarus of Maids" on pages 670 - 678; chapters 39 - 57 of "The Newcomes" by Thackeray; and several short stories by Charles Dickens including: Lawyer's Story, Redeemed Profligate, and Widow's Story. Also includes a 13 page article... Read More
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine Volume I January to June 1853
by Melville, Herman, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This first volume of Putnam's Monthly Magazine includes an article titled "Our Young Authors - Melville," (pages 155-164) and an article "Are We a Good Looking People?" that mentions Melville and other contemporary authors as "handsome and superior-looking men" (page 311). The interesting article on Melville by... Read More
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Typee. A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas: Revised edition with a Sequel
by Melville, Herman
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover. Fourth edition of this first American printing of Melville's recounting of his voyages in the South Seas. With the sequel "The Story of Toby" on pages 293-307. Expertly rebacked with modern leather spine over original navy blue cloth covered boards. Gilt title to spine. Paper repair to... Read More
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine Volume VI [Benito Cereno and The Piazza Tales: The Bell Tower] (6) July - December 1855
by Melville, Herman
New York: Dix & Edwards, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Very scarce. The first appearance of Melville’s novella, Benito Cereno, a fictionalized account of a revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Cereno. It was published anonymously in the magazine in three parts. A revised version of the story was included in his first and only short... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume VIII (8) December 1853 - May 1854
by [Melville, Herman; Charles Dickens; W. M. Thackeray]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes Melville's short story "Cock a Doodle Doo - The Crowing of the Cock Beneventano" on page 77 - 86, Charles Dickens' "School Boy Stories", and chapters 4 - 20 of Thackeray's "The Newcomes." Bound in three quarter black leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt title... Read More
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art Volume II [Bartleby the Scrivener. A Story of Wall Street] (2) July - December 1853
by Melville, Herman
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Herman Melville’s famed short story, was first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. It was reprinted with minor textual changes in Piazza Tales in 1856. The story has been called the unquestionable masterpiece of... Read More
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Duodecimoes
by Melville, Herman
Lexington, Kentucky: King Library Press, 2010. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. A miniature book featuring an excerpt from Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Printed from photopolymer plates in duodecimo format with historic illustrations of Melville’s ‘duodecimo’ whales – the dolphins. Published by the University of Kentucky Press (The Knight’s Library) with the Miniature Book Society. Bound in a black paper... Read More
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine Volumes IV and V (4 and 5) [Israel Potter; Or, Fifty Years of Exile] Two Volumes
by [Melville, Herman]
New York: G.P. Putnam & Col, 1855. Very Good. Scarce. The first appearance of Israel Potter, Melville’s novel about the Revolutionary War, was published in six parts in Putnam’s Magazine between July 1854 - March 1855. It was published in book form in March 1855. Loosely based on a real person, Israel Potter recounts the life of a... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXIII (33), Number 194 July 1866
by [Melville, Herman; Wilkie Collins]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes the first appearance of Melville's poem "Gettysburg" on page 209. Also includes chapters from "Armadale" by Wilkie Collins and recollections of the Civil War by a Virginian. In the original paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Chipping / loss to paper on spine.... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume III (3) [With the Town Ho's Story from Moby Dick] June to November 1851
by Melville, Herman
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. The “Town Ho’s Story” appeared on pages 659-665 in the October 1851 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. It was the first appearance of any part of the great novel Moby Dick and became chapter 54 in the book. A publisher’s note on page 659 says: “From... Read More
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume III (3) [With the Town Ho's Story from Moby Dick] June to November 1851
by [Melville, Herman]
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. The “Town Ho’s Story” appeared on pages 659-665 in the October 1851 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. It was the first appearance of any part of the great novel Moby Dick and became chapter 54 in the book. A publisher’s note on page 659 says: “From... Read More
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Diary of H.L. Mencken
by Mencken, Henry Louis, Charles A. Fecher [editor]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine illustrated brown and white dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Illustrated. Index, 476 pages. H.L. Mencken. MENCKE21/112399.
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The American Mercury. Volume V. May-August 1925
by Mencken, H.L.
Knopf, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 1/3 brown cloth binding with marble paper covered boards. Minor rubbing to exterior and bumping to spine ends and corners. Minor discoloration to spine. No title on spine. Decorative end pages. Interior is clean and bright. Index, 510 pages + ads. H.L. Mencken. MENCK/072413.
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The Green Vaults
by Menzhausen, Joachim
Edition Leipzig, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Photographs by Gerhard Reinhold. Translated from the German by Marianne Herzfeld. "The Green Vaults is one of the richest treasuries in Europe ... [It] is one of the most outstanding of its kind because of the number and variety of the objects it contains. There are more than three thousand one hundred... Read More
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A Reading of Earth
by Meredith, George
London: Macmillan and Co, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Apparently a presentation copy, with an inserted sheet printed "From the Author" and with the bookplate of the recipient, G.W. Foote. Foote, a friend of Meredith's, was a British secularist and journal editor. In the original dark blue cloth with light bumping to corners. Interior page very... Read More
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Farina: A Legend of Cologne
by Meredith, George
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition of author's second novel. RARE INSCRIBED COPY: "F. Maxse/ from his friend/ GM." George Meredith (1828-1909) was an important author and poet of the Victorian era. He was a friend to many major figures of his time including William and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne,... Read More
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Theatre de Clara Gazul Comedienne Espagnole Suivi de La Jacuerie et de la Fanille Carvajal
by Merimee, Prosper
Paris: Charpentier Et Cie, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good +. Hardcover. Ex Libris. 8vo, Blue leather backed marble paper coverd boards with gilt title to spine. 5 raisesd bands to spine as well as gilt tooling. Minor wear to exterior hinges. Rubbing to marble paper. Open tear to paper covering rear board. Wear to edges and corners of boards.... Read More
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1572: Chronicle of the Times of Charles the Ninth
by Merimee, Prosper
New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. Good+ in 3/4 red leather and marble paper covered boards with faded gilt title to spine. Wear to edges and hinges. Bookplate of James H. Graff to front paste down.19th century writing to title page. Minor browning throughout. Text is bright. 286 pages. French History.... Read More
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