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MELVILLE, Herman
PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES
Harper New York 1852 First Edition BAL 13666. Original green cloth with just a touch of wear and anold and neat removal of a label from the spine. Front orchid endpaper lacking. Removal of labels from both pastedowns. Moderate foxing. Published a year after MOBY DICK, this much different novel with incest as its subject was acommercial failure. A Good copy of a scarce book, of which only 110 of 604 unsold copies, and the majority were unsold, escaped destruction in the Harper's warehouse fire of 1853.
- USD 2,000.00 > other currencies
- ordernr.: 000152
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