MELVILLE, HERMAN Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1847. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, marbled endpapers, half-title, glassine. First American edition, with 16 pp. publisher's ads. and chart frontispiece. Spine faded and lightly spotted; hinges expertly repaired. Estimate $ 400-600 Property from a Private Collector Provenance: E. Joseph Antiquarian Booksellers, London light edgewear to boards; pencilled inscription to front blank: Elizabeth S. Weaver, with the love of H. J. Raymond, July 21, 1847; light offsetting from chart; top corner 385-9 turned in.
MELVILLE, HERMAN Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1847. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, marbled endpapers, half-title, glassine. First American edition, with 16 pp. publisher's ads. and chart frontispiece. Spine faded and lightly spotted; hinges expertly repaired. Estimate $ 400-600 Property from a Private Collector Provenance: E. Joseph Antiquarian Booksellers, London light edgewear to boards; pencilled inscription to front blank: Elizabeth S. Weaver, with the love of H. J. Raymond, July 21, 1847; light offsetting from chart; top corner 385-9 turned in.
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