Omoo
by Melville, Herman
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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Omoo
by Herman Melville
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- 1961
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
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Harper & Brothers, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Harper & Brothers, 1847. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gold. Yellow patterned endpapers. 14 pages of ads in back. Book is very good with a slight spine lean and some chipping to spine ends. Some foxing. Contemporary owner name and… Read more about this item Item Price
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OMOO: A Narrative of Adventure In The South Sea
by Melville Herman
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London: John Murray, 1847. First Edition, the English issue, preceding the American issue by about a month. State A of the signature mark on p. 209. Full page cartographic frontispiece and the illustration at p. 78. 8vo., in an antique binding of dark brown-maroon over brown cloth boards, the spine with gilt panel enclosing the… Read more about this item Item Price
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OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
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London: John Murray, 1847. First British Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xiii, 321 pages; VG; bound in contemporary half-burgundy calf, marbled boards, rebacked with modern burgundy cloth, gilt titling to spine; mild wear and rubbing to boards; lacking terminal ads. BAL 13655: State C of page 209, no priority; frontispiece map.; WD consignment; shelved case 2. Omoo is the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo
by MELVILLE, Herman; illustrated by Reynolds Stone
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Oxford (UK): Limited Editions Club, 1961. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small quarto, 273pp., illustrated by Reynolds Stone. A fine, crisp, unread copy in the publisher's marbled boards with black morocco spine label, stamped in gilt. In the original tissue dust jacket, creased and with some chips and tears, also sunned on the spine, though that has protected the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
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Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1892. 1892 edition, illustrated with four black and white plates. Blue cloth lettered in gilt with a sailboat motif in lighter blue and white on the front cover, 8.25" tall. Very light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
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Boston: L.C. Page & Company, Publishers [1951], 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], v-xiii, [2], 2-365, [3] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. A nice copy of one of Melville's classic tales. Toning to the pages with the faint odor of tobacco, top textblock foxed; jacket shows toning… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo.
by MELVILLE, Herman.
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- 1924
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NY:: Dodd, Mead and Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. B0006AJFSM . Eight color plates. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few small chips), price clipped dust jacket.; 299 pages . Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas.
by MELVILLE, Herman.
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New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1847.. Third edition.. publisher's blue cloth; gilt spine.. Old retailer's ticket on front pastedown; some age-toning to text; binding rubbed and worn at corners, spine and joints.. 12mo,. Item Price
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Omoo
by Melville, Herman
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Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. 25.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 273pp. White and grey boards with wave design in grey cloth slipcase. With introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Limited to 1500 copies signed bvy the woodcut artist Reynolds Stone, this being copy 553. Sun toning to the spine. The head of the spine is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
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- 1847
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- Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American edition. Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends with closed tear to head of spine, corners worn, light foxing to text throughout. First American… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by MELVILLE, Herman
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New York: Grove Press, 1958. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. 365pp. Smudges on corners, spine and wrapper edges lightly age-toned, very good. An Evergreen Book E-94. Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition of Melville's second novel. This story is based on Melville's adventures and experiences during his years at sea between 1839-1844. It has been professionally rebacked in handsome dark green leather with gilt titling and elaborate ornaments to spine. The front cover features a gilt ship… Read more about this item Item Price
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OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
by Melville, Herman
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London: John Murray, 1847. First British Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 321 pages. In Good minus condition. Half bound in red leather with red cloth boards and gilt lettering on paneled and blindstamped spine. Boards have rubbing to corners and joints, slight bumping to corners, stain on front cover, and white marks on rear cover. Text block has… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo.
by Melville, Herman
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Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847. First edition of this classic Melville work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise slipcase. BAL 13656. A sharp example. Item Price
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, A Sequel to "Typee
by Melville, Herman
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- 1892
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Webster, New York, USA
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Boston: D.D. Nickerson Co, 1892. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Austin, Henry; Shute, A. Burham. No jacket. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, boards very lightly soiled. 1892 Hard Cover. xiii, 365 pp. Frontispiece by Henry Austin; 4 plates by A. Burham Shute. "Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo : A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by MELVILLE, Herman (1918-1891)
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- First Edition thus
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- 1922
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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London: Constable [through 1924], 1922. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's second novel, first published by John Murray, in London, on March 30, 1847. Royal 8vo (226 x 142mm): xiv,375,[1]pp. Publisher's slate-blue cloth, spine and covers paneled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore- and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo.
by Melville, Herman
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Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847. First edition of this classic Melville work Omoo, the Martin-Manney copy in the rare original wrappers. Octavo, two volumes, original wrappers. Volume 1 with half-title, title-page printed in black and red, and frontispiece map of the Marquesas and Tahiti. Volume 2 with advertisements at rear paginated [xv]-xxiii, [1]-16 (light staining to prelims,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omoo
by Herman Melville; Van Wyck Brooks (Intro)
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- 1961
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Novato, California, USA
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Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered, signed copies, this being number 1,389. Signed by the Illustrator Reynolds Stone. Unread, in original slipcase. No markings in book. Binding is fine. No DJ. Item Price
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Omoo: a Real Romance of the South Seas
by Melville, Herman (Ed. by W. Clark Russell; Appendix by Marie Clothilde Balfour)
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- First Thus
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- [c1910]
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Dunedin, New Zealand, NZL
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$22.50
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London: George Routledge & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1910]. First Thus. Hardcover. "The New Universal Library". No date [c1910]. Green cloth covers. 462 pages. Small tears and creasing to margins of a couple of leaves. Spine faded. ; 16mo . Item Price
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