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Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover 12 mo 272 pages Green cloth, gilt spine labeling (slightly faded), blind embossed design on both boards. Sunday, November 22, 2020 Only small defect is first fly appears to be chipped top and bottom and doesn't reach fully to front of text block. Lacks misspelled 'hundred" on copyright page. Small repair to spine at bottom.
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition, First Issue with "hnndred" on copyright page. Full purple cloth, blindstamped monogram covers. Cloth faded to tan on spine/edges. Some light soiling, tiny spine chipped on crown and foot, corners showing .After publishing five novels, including the epic "Moby Dick", Melville turned his pen to poetry and the world aroung him. Melville based his Civil War poems on firsthand experience, and rather than glorify battle, he poignantly depicts the horrors and the waste of it. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. BAL 13673.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1866.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 272 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with gilt titling to spine. Some rubbing, wear, and fading to spine. Blindstamped monogram to covers. Two bookplates affixed to front pastedown, and a small paper with description of Library of Congress copy pasted to front free endpaper. Page 121/122 torn and missing lower half. First printing, with copyright page with the world 'hundred' misspelled "hnndred." Shelved in Case 2. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is the first book of poetry published by Herman Melville. It sold only 486 copies by 1868. BAL: 13673. C cloth, purple. 1349661. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1866.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with word "hnndred" misspelled on copyright page. . A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Melville First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.