Brick Row Book Shop, New York, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Good copy, tight and sound in the publishers' quarter cloth. Binding dust soiled, paper spine label discoloured, corners and edges worn. Text block a little foxed. Loosely enclosed are several newspaper cuttings relating to Melville / Moby Dick and a t.l.s. from Michael Sadleir giving this copy to Philip Gosse ( 'Send it back if you've got one & don't want it' ). The letter on Sadleir's Orange Street headed notepaper. Edition limited to 1500 copies only. 195 pages, facs. letter, plates, index. Approx. size 10" by 7". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27902. .

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Bookseller: Steve Liddle (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27902
Title: Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography
Author: Minnigerode, Meade
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Brick Row Book Shop
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1922
Keywords: BZDB28 books bibliography publishing american fiction writer writers novels sadleir Books on Books; Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography Minnigerode Meade
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