MELVILLE, HERMAN. MOBY-DICK; OR, THE WHALE. 8vo, original black cloth, covers stamped with a heavy rule border and central publisher's

device in blind, gilt-lettered on spine; recased with spine ends repaired, shaken, some scattered foxing; imaginative full morocco folding case. New York: Harper, 1851 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, in the First Binding, following the English edition by a month and with some thirty-five passages not present in the English. BAL 13664; Grolier/American 60.