New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.. 8vo., 465 pp., Good, Original Brown Cloth, rebound with new brown cloth spine, printed paper label affixed to spine, & cloth tape along gutters of original end papers; significant loss on bottom of back board, sun-fading, stains, rubbing, and edge wear on boards; splitting along gutters in several parts of the text; pencil scribbles on end papers; staining & foxing throughout text, on end papers and edges of text block; shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle (bookplate); previous owners' signatures on front end paper & second FFEP. Bibliographic analysis suggests this is a Mixed Copy, with elements of the First Edition First Printing and another 1850 printing.

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Bookseller: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 16-1985
Title: White-Jacket; Or, the World in a Man-Of-War.
Author: Melville, Herman
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.
Bookseller catalogs: Literature & Linguistics;

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Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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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...