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Ownership signature of John A. Cisco, son of John J. Cisco, Lincoln and Buchanan's assistant treasury secretary. Spine cracked, scattered foxing, front board just starting, otherwise clean. Edition Points: Seven line Note opposite Contents page - bottom margin of page 361 the letter Q with asterisk - on page 433 no letter T on margin - after page 465 six pages of ads with the first four featuring Melville titles. "Harper and Brothers, New York" blind-stamped front and back board.
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White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War
by Melville, Herman
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from Moby-Dick: in Harper's Monthly. Volume III June-Nov 1851
by Melville, Herman
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The first appearance of any part of Melville's Moby-Dick! "The Town-Ho's Story" would become chapter 54 of the classic novel.Harper & Brothers, New York, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. Black leather with matching corners, dark brown boards, with gilt spine label. 864 pp. total, the Town-Ho's Story is 8 pages starting on p. 658 With a the footnote: "From 'THE WHALE." The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper and Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley."Additionally, a wealth of other mid-19th century light reading including "The Treason of Benedict Arnold" by Benson Lossing immediately following, as well as such page-turners as "Somnambulism" and "Visit to Laplanders."
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