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de Melville, Herman
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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. . With pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer. Pp. [ii]+124(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 9 illustrations (6 full page); narrow med. 4to; gilt lettered red buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed, the top fore-corner of upper board slightly frayed, edges and spine slightly faded, spine gilt dulled; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, short closed tear to fore-edge margin pp. 33/4, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926. Edition limited to 1,650 numbered copies on grey Van Gelder paper. McKitterick 36. *Lacking the dust wrapper. This sea-story originally appeared in Putnam's Monthly Magazine in 1855 and was later published in the limited edition of Melville's collected works and in The Piazzo Tales (1956). For the Nonesuch edition, McKnight Kauffer's illustrations were hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press.
Sinopsis
IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water...Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
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- 162956
- Título
- BENITO CERENO
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- Melville, Herman
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- Usado
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- 1
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- The Nonesuch Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1926
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- Offset
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
