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MELVILLE (HERMAN) Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1849
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,500 inc. premium
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MELVILLE (HERMAN)
Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, without half-titles (not called for in volume 2) and advertisements, a few gatherings slightly proud, light toning throughout, occasional light spotting, publisher's blindstamped patterned dark blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, plain yellow endpapers [BAL state "B"], spines and corners refurbished with minor losses, rubbed [BAL 13659], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1849
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 750 COPIES, this English edition preceding the first American by six weeks. Completed in less than ten weeks Redburn was a fictional narrative based on Melville's own first voyage which he undertook to Liverpool in 1839.
Provenance: "Tillie from Bessie Twycross", pencil inscription on title to volume 1.