Edited by Egbert S Oliver (1 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprints this collection of six short stories (including perennial favorites 'Bartleby' and 'Benito Cereno'), first published in 1856, with a brief contextual introduction & 25 pages of endnotes. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first printing thus, one of an important series of scholarly editions of Melville issued by Hendricks House. Light wear to book, spine ends lightly bumped; jacket shows some tanning & edgewear, chipping, short tears, $3.50 price intact; ink name & year inside front cover, pages xii & [1] tanned from old nespaper clipping, since discarded. Text clean; xii, [3], 250 pages; notes. Size: Octavo.…