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Auction archive: Lot number 92

Melville, Herman

Estimate
£18,000 - £22,000
ca. US$29,068 - US$35,528
Price realised:
£27,500
ca. US$44,410
Auction archive: Lot number 92

Melville, Herman

Estimate
£18,000 - £22,000
ca. US$29,068 - US$35,528
Price realised:
£27,500
ca. US$44,410
Beschreibung:

Melville, Herman MOBY-DICK; OR, THE WHALE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS / LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY 1851 12mo, first edition, first binding (publisher's device stamped on upper and lower covers), 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blue cloth, lettering in gilt on spine, covers stamped in blind, orange-coated endpapers, collector's blue morocco-backed folding box, some browning and spotting, very slightly skewed, soiling to endpapers, bookplate, binding slighly soiled with corners bumped, head and foot of spine frayed with some minor loss

Auction archive: Lot number 92
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Melville, Herman MOBY-DICK; OR, THE WHALE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS / LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY 1851 12mo, first edition, first binding (publisher's device stamped on upper and lower covers), 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blue cloth, lettering in gilt on spine, covers stamped in blind, orange-coated endpapers, collector's blue morocco-backed folding box, some browning and spotting, very slightly skewed, soiling to endpapers, bookplate, binding slighly soiled with corners bumped, head and foot of spine frayed with some minor loss

Auction archive: Lot number 92
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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