Typee :
a peep at Polynesian life : during a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas : with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the provisional cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet /
by Herman Melville.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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[New York] : R. Craighead's Power Press, 112 Fulton Street :
New York : Wiley and Putnam ; 1846.
- Summary
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Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands.
- Note
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Advertisements on pages [v]-x at end.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰ 2-7¹² 8¹² (-8₁₂) chi² 9-14¹² 15⁶ [16]² [17]² [18]₁; [1]₁ blank.
"To Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this little work is affectionately inscribed by the author"--Page [v].
Part II has separate title page and half-title page; pagination and register continuous.
Printer and stereotyper statements from title page verso.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by Wiley & Putnam, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York"--Title page verso.
First American edition; originally published in London under title: Narrative of four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life.
From the library of Paul Padgette.
- Physical Description
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2 parts in 1 volume ([4], xv, [1], 166, [4], [167]-325, [1], [v]-x pages) :
map ;
20 cm (12mo).
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