Melville, Herman: White-Jacket; Or, the World in a Man-Of-War

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Melville, Herman : White-Jacket; Or, the World in a Man-Of-War

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.

8vo., 465 pp., Good, Original Brown Cloth, rebound with new brown cloth spine, printed paper label affixed to spine, & cloth tape along gutters of original end papers; significant loss on bottom of back board, sun-fading, stains, rubbing, and edge wear on boards; splitting along gutters in several parts of the text; pencil scribbles on end papers; staining & foxing throughout text, on end papers and edges of text block; shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle (bookplate); previous owners' signatures on front end paper & second FFEP. Bibliographic analysis suggests this is a Mixed Copy, with elements of the First Edition First Printing and another 1850 printing.

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