Melville (Herman) Moby-Dick; or The Whale, first American edition, 6pp. advertisements, light foxing, original orange-coated endpapers, original "A" red cloth with publisher's circular device and a heavy rule frame on both covers, neat and sympathetic repair and retouching to joints, spine ends and corners by Bruce Levy, light creasing to covers, in effect a sharp and excellent copy, preserved in custom morocco drop-back box with wale motif inlayed in white to covers and in gilt on spine, [BAL 13664], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1851.

⁂ An attractive example of the first American edition, issued one month after the true first, containing thirty-five passages that were expunged in the English edition as well as the Epilogue recounting Ishmael's rescue.