Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
de Melville, Herman
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien/No Jacket
- Librería
-
south dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. True first edition first state with Chapter 14 mis-stated as XVI. Reddish purple cloth binding with the spine initials ornamented with pendants. Previous owner contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown. First blank page has a neat previous owner Peter Grant, Farmingdale, March 19, 1855 noted neatly in ink. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Wayward Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 017528
- Título
- Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
- Autor
- Melville, Herman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition.
- Editorial
- G.P. Putnam & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1855
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Melville;
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Specialities are: Steinbeck, Vietnam War Literature, Cape Cod and the Islands, Melville, Thomas Merton, Signed First Editions.
Specialities are: Steinbeck, Vietnam War Literature, Cape Cod and the Islands, Melville, Thomas Merton, Signed First Editions.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- First State
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- Cloth
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- G
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