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Omoo
by Herman Melville
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Limited Editions Club, New York, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Reynolds Stone. Herman Melville, Omoo, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Quarto, No. 1,164 of an edition of 1,500, pp. xix, 273, 1 (limitation page), printed boards with beveled edges and a calf label to the spine, top edge tinged gray, slipcased, illustrated by Reynolds Stone and signed by Stone on the limitation page. Condition of this book: Fine in a sound but soiled slipcase, with remnant of a parchment wrapper. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Reynolds Stone. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th century; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54976. .
Synopsis
Melville’s continuing adventures in the South Seas—now for the first time in Penguin Classics Following the commercial and critical success of Typee , Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo . Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia.
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- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54976
- Title
- Omoo
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Illustrator
- Reynolds Stone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; 19th century; Art & Design. Reynolds Stone Herman Melville Omoo
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- 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...
- 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....
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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