![[Item #23948] Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the provisional cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet. Herman MELVILLE.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23948.jpg?auto=webp&v=1443475042)
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the provisional cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First American Edition. Two volumes in one; small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; xv,[1],166;[4],[167]-325pp.; integral map frontispiece. Extremities rubbed, endpapers somewhat foxed but contents generally fresh and clean; overall Very Good and sound, in a rather utilitarian -- but happily attributed -- 19th-century American binding. Contemporary Baltimore binder's ticket to front pastedown (Louis Bonsal, "125 Balto. St, up stairs").
Melville's first book, originally published the same year in London as Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands. BAL 13653.
Price: $500.00
