ISRAEL POTTER: HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE
de MELVILLE, HERMAN
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NEW YORK NY: G. P. PUTNAM & CO.. GOOD+ IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S CLOTH. PUB 1855. THIRD EDITION. ISBN: FIRST ISSUE OF THE 3RD ED WITH INTEGRAL TITLE PAGE AND WITHOUT THE. ISBN: IMPRINT OF "LOW, SON & CO" BENEATH THE PUTNAM IMPRINT. ORIGINAL UNSOPHISTICATED PUBLISHER'S PURPLE-BROWN CLOTH WITH 1/4" LOSSAT THE CROWN AND HEEL OF THE SPINE, SPINE'S GILT TITLES DULLED BUT STILLVERY VISIBLE, SPINE DISCOLORED TO BROWN, CORNERS AND BOTTOM EDGESMODERATELY WORN, SOME SCATTERED LIGHT SPOTTING/DISCOLORATION TO THECOVERS, INTERNALLY VERY NICE WITH THE REAR FREE ENDPAPER EXCISED, ANDSCATTERED LIGHT FOXING AND A FEW STAINS SCATTERED THROUGHT THE TEXTBLOCK.. Keywords: 19TH CENTURY LIT, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.
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The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novel Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was. This edition of Israel Potter , which reproduces the definitive text, includes selections from Potter's autobiography, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter , the basis for Melville's novel.
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- ISRAEL POTTER: HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE
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- MELVILLE, HERMAN
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- THIRD EDITION
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