JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO LONDON AND THE CONTINENT BY HERMAN MELVILLE 1849-1850
by MELVILLE, Herman. Eleanor Melville Metcalf (Editor_
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/good. Octavo, 189 pages, brown cloth; edgeworn dj in a mylar protector
This is the first, complete publication of Melville's critical trip to London to find a British publisher for WHITE JACKET. Melville's proposed European visit of twelve months, was cut short to a bit more than seventeen weeks, but very intense weeks. Here edited by his granddaughter, Eleanor. [ BAL 13695].
This is the first, complete publication of Melville's critical trip to London to find a British publisher for WHITE JACKET. Melville's proposed European visit of twelve months, was cut short to a bit more than seventeen weeks, but very intense weeks. Here edited by his granddaughter, Eleanor. [ BAL 13695].
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO LONDON AND THE CONTINENT BY HERMAN MELVILLE 1849-1850
- Author
- MELVILLE, Herman. Eleanor Melville Metcalf (Editor_
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- herman melville stanley rice travel
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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