MELVILLE, Herman: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

Harper & Brothers, NY, 1851, First US Edition, contains 35 passages and the epilogue, omitted from the London edition published a month earlier. Original grey cloth, with publishers’ device to centre of both covers, orange endpapers & gilt-lettered spine. 8vo. CONDITION: Covers rubbed and the upper cover creased; The bottom half of the title page is torn off and missing (copyright 1851, is present on the verso of the remaining title page); former owner’s name etc to the head of the title page; inner hinges cracked and one gathering a little loose; and light damp staining. Bound without the advert pages at the end. [The vast majority of the first edition printing were destroyed in a fire at the Harper & Brothers warehouse in 1853 - with only 60 copies known to have survived]. SOLD A/F, NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN