Keyword:LITERATURE HERMAN MELVILLE

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Melville and His Circle: The Last Years

By: Dillingham, William B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, University of Georgia Press: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304970

ISBN: 0820318566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel. 1996 Hard Cover. xiii, 213 pp. Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature?arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativi...
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The Stormy Petrel and the Whale: Some Origins of Moby-Dick

By: Jaffe, David; Leyda, Jay

Price: $7.00

Publisher: David Jaffe: 1976

Seller ID: 2298295

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

stains on front wrapper, ink name on front wrapper, wrappers lightly toned, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1976 Soft Cover. vii, 76 pp. This publication consisted of reprints of two articles revealing Melville's indebtedness to Charles Wilkes' Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition... 1838-1842 in the composition of Moby Dick. Also included is the reprint of The Miniature Which Inspired Clifford Pyncheon's Portrait, an article which reveals an odd and intriguing connection between Moby Dick and the House of Seven Gables.
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Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Library of America: 1982

Seller ID: 2185733

ISBN: 0940450003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Blue cloth boards with slipcase. Exceptional copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the cannibals in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. Mardi (the world in Polynesian) is a mixture of love story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythic...
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Typee: A Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands or A Peep at Polynesian Life (The Astor Library)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Signet: 1964

Seller ID: 2263066

ISBN: 0451002636

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 1964 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 319 pp. 8vo. Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands and the title comes from a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; for 19th century readers his career seemed to go downhill afterward, but during the early 20th century it was seen as just the beginnin...
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, A Sequel to Typee

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: D.D. Nickerson Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 2298291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, boards very lightly soiled. 1892 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 365 pp. Frontispiece by Henry Austin; 4 plates by A. Burham Shute. Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing...
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Moby Dick; or, The Whale

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1930

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2263964

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Spine and edges lightly rubbed, tiny split starting along front of spine head. 1930 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxxi, 822, [6] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound in full red morocco with gilt title, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent throughout. A particularly sought-after edition of Melville's famous 'tale of the whale'.
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Billy Budd

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Digireads.com: 2010

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2267106

ISBN: 1420938290

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light ink underlining. 2010 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 122 pp. This is the final work of American author Herman Melville (1819-1891), discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and published in Raymond Weaver's 1924 edition of The Collected Works of Melville. The emergence of what some consider to be Melville's masterpiece sparked a revived interest in the forgotten writer, despite the complex and incomplete nature of the manuscript. This is the first of many attempts to piece together and refine the sometimes illegible text, which included ...
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White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club: 1996

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 2276222

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Ink name and number on quote page, a few minor spots to top page ridge. 1996 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 504 pp. Based on Melville's experiences as a common seaman aboard the frigate USS United States from 1843 to 1844 and stories that other sailors told him, the novel is severely critical of virtually every aspect of American naval life and thus qualifies as Melville's most politically strident work. At the time, though, the one thing that journalists and politicians focused on in the novel was its graphic descriptions of flogging and the horrors caused ...
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Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dolphin Books: 1961

Seller ID: 2300163

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A collection of Melville's writings including Billy Budd, The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Encantadas, and The Bell Tower.
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Moby Dick or The Whale (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, Giant G64)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1930

Seller ID: 2286113

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

1944-1967 printing (Toledano G064.1). Lacks jacket. Hinges repaired, ink stamp on front endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxi, [1], 822, [8] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, silvert titles. Illustrated with woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby-Dick,...
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Omoo

By: Melville, Herman; Brooks, Van Wyck (Introduction)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1967

Seller ID: 1954366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. Lacks Sandglass insert. Spine very slightly faded, slipcase lightly rubbed. 1967 Hard Cover. xix, 272, [1] pp. 8vo. Original black & green cloth decorated boards, silver titles & rules, issued in publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Woodcut engravings by Reynolds Stone. A work of nautical fiction, Melville's second work of fiction, and a sequel to Typee. It is based on Melville's travels from the Marquesas to Tahiti, but also includes events drawn from other sources.
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Moby Dick; or, The Whale (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Melville, Herman; Fadiman, Clifton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2266129

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Faint stain to top corner of first two pages, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1977 Full-Leather. xxii, 615 pp. 8vo. Original black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, sky blue ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Illustrations by Boardman Robinson. Melville's famous 'tale of the whale' in a gorgeously bound volume.
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Moby Dick; or, The Whale (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Melville, Herman; Fadiman, Clifton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2303673

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Spine cocked, rear corner rubbed, endpaper edges faded. 1977 Full-Leather. xxii, 615 pp. 8vo. Original black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, sky blue ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Illustrations by Boardman Robinson. Melville's famous 'tale of the whale' in a gorgeously bound volume.
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Pierre, or the Ambiguities (Americana Deserta Series)

By: Melville, Herman; Forsythe, Robert S.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1930

Seller ID: 2298289

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine lightly toned and slightly cocked, pencil notes on front free endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. xxxviii, 416 pp. When Pierre Glendinning's lifelong desire for a sister is seemingly realized on the eve of his marriage, his world is suddenly turned upside down, for he must choose between acknowledging his illegitimate half-sister or perpetuating his unsullied family legacy. Melville unfolds the story of an idealistic young man whose steadfast beliefs lead him to destroy his world and himself.
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Billy Budd and Benito Cereno: Two Tales by Herman Melville (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Melville, Herman; Geismar, Maxwell

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 2004

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2275777

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minor scuffs along edges, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 2004 Full-Leather. xv, [1], 176 pp. Tall 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar, paintings by Robert Stone. Two of Melville's short works together in one volume with color illustrations.
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The Portable Melville

By: Melville, Herman; Leyda, Jay

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1976

Seller ID: 2281603

ISBN: 0140150587

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. Contains the full text of Typee, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, as well as selections from his novels and poetry.
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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War (The Chiltren Library)

By: Melville, Herman; Plomer, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Grove Press: 1952

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2298292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus. No jacket. Boards stained, spine lightly toned, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper. 1952 Hard Cover. xiv, 376 pp. New introduction by William Plomer. White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850.[1] The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States). Based on Melville's experiences as a common seaman aboard the frigate USS United States from 1843 to 1844 and stories that other sailors told him, ...
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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile

By: Melville, Herman; Weaver, Raymond

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Albert & Charles Boni: 1924

Seller ID: 2298290

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Spine and boards lightly toned, board edges rubbed, rear board lightly soiled, front hinge starting. 1924 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvii, 274 pp. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855. A pirated edition was also published in London by George Routledge in May 1855. The book is loosely based on a pamphlet (108-page) autobiography that Melville acquired ...
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Moby Dick or The White Whale (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

By: Melville, Herman; Weaver, Raymond

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1926

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2281346

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink gift note on front endpaper, a couple sentences underlined in blue ink, ink sketch on rear free endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. xxi, [1], 565, [1] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer ye...
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The Oregon Trail

By: Parkman, Francis; Wade, Mason; Dixon, Maynard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Heritage Press: 1943

Seller ID: 2208316

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, lacks slipcase, spine lightly toned. 1943 Hard Cover. xxii, 297 pp. Lacks slipcase. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman. It was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849. The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hun...
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Keyword:LITERATURE HERMAN MELVILLE

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