MELVILLE, HERMAN Narrative of a Four Months" Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian

Life. Half-title; map. Small 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt, extremities rubbed. Without terminal catalogue. London, 1846 FIRST EDITION of Melville's first book; first state of page 19, with "Pomarea" on line 1. BAL 13652.