HERMAN MELVILLE - COLLECTION - HFSID 285746
Price: $8,500.00
HERMAN MELVILLE
Extremely rare clipped signature, accompanied by an unsigned postcard photo
of the author
Signature: "Herman Melville", 4x1 fragment clipped from a letter.
1¾x¼-inch portion torn at lower left blank corner, lightly stained, light
show-through from writing (not his) on verso. Overall, fine and rare.
Accompanied by unsigned postcard photograph. B/w, 4¼x6. Fine condition.
American novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891) first found fame with his
romances: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) and Omoo, a
Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847). In 1851, his
masterpiece, Moby-Dick; or The Whale, dedicated to his friend Nathaniel
Hawthorne, introduced readers to some of literature's most enduring
characters -- Captain Ahab, the cabin boy/narrator Ishmael, and Moby Dick,
the great white whale. Two items.
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