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Item Details

Description

Title: Typee

Description: FIRST EDITION THUS.

Introduction by Robert Gibbings.

With Pencil Drawings by Jacques Boullaire.

Publishers green cloth with gilt vignette.

Gilt title and gilt vignette to spine.

Colour top page-block and endpapers.

Frontispiece plate.

Full-page plates.

Melville's classic take of two sailors who jump ship to live

amongst the tribes of a Pacific island community.

A very lovely copy.

Product Details: Publisher

The Folio Society., London

Author

Herman Melville

Date Published

1974

Binding

Hardback

Condition

Very Good

Weight

579g

Reserve: $15.00

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