Typee, Signed (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Limited Editions Club Edition. SIGNED by Miguel Covarrubias , the illustrator, as copy #1372 of 1500 issued on the colophon at the rear. This copy is NEAR FINE in a NEAR FINE slipcase. Tan cloth covered boards with black lettering design with light green rules to the spine.Spine is slightly sunned. Edges are sharp. Inside is unmarked, crisp, and tight. Decorative yellow and brown slipcase is very lightly sunned to the spine and minimally rubbed on the corners. Lovely. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Hardcover in patterened slipcase, 409 pages. Limited Editions Club edition, numbered 912 of 1500 printed. A very good, well-bound book with some toning. Very good slipcase has minor chipping and shows general edge wear but is otherwise sturdy. Signed by the illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias.

Intro by Raymond Weaver. Illustrations by Miguel Cavarrubias. xxviii, 409 pages. Page foredges and bottom edges uncut. Tall 8vo 9 3/4" tall. Paper covered boards. Numbered on special limited page at back #532 with black pen and signed by the illustrator with black pen. About a half inch square of the paper covering missing from cover at base of spine. Spine darkened a little. Slipcase generally very good with a few tiny chips at opening. The 4 page Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club, Number 75 August 1935 which discuses Typee, is laid-in. Very Good/ Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Small quarto. Small abrasions on front endpapers, hinges starting, boards edgeworn with a toned spine, very good, lacking the slipcase. One of 1,500 copies Signed by the illustrator, Covarrubias. This copy is unnumbered.

hardcover. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full native tappa with an introduction by Raymond Weaver who was most responsible for resurrecting Melville's reputation in the twentieth century. Copy #196 of 1500 numbered copies with lovely color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Covarrubias, Miguel (illustrator). Limited. Limited edition, signed by illustrator. #586 of 1500. Original slipcase has small splits, edge wear, scratches, scuffs, slightly chipped, rubbed corners. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners, rubbed/very slightly chipped spine, very small stain on edge. Owner's neat bookplate inside front cover. No writing in text. Signed by Illustrator(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). Limited. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Color plates and text illus. 409 pages. Small 4to, coarse fiber boards with decorated spine, in matching board slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Spine sun-darkened; slipcase worn but sound, still a very good(+) copy. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator.

hardcover. Condition: Fine, lacking the slipcase. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full native tappa with an introduction by Raymond Weaver who was most responsible for resurrecting Melville's reputation in the twentieth century. Copy #601 of 1500 numbered copies with lovely color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

LIMITED EDITION, one of only 1500 hand-numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias. With twenty-three lovely, bright, watercolour-style illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias and with initial capitals printed in various colours. Small 4to, publisher's original course fiber-paper-covered boards, the spine lettered and decorated in a Polynesian style in black and light yellow/green. In the original slipcase made to resemble Polynesian barkcloth decorated in yellow/green, brown, and black. xxviii409, [1] pp. A fine copy with minor toning and edgewear to the spine, the slipcase is also in great condition with expected age mellowing and minor wear. A BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF MELVILLE'S FIRST BOOK, a narrative based on his own experience in the South Seas. TYPEE was also Melville's most popular book during his own lifetime, it made him famous as a man who lived among cannibals. One of the fine productions from the Limited Editions Club's heyday, the bright and bold paintings of Miguel Covarrubias are a wonderful contribution to Melville's text. Mexican in origin, Covarrubias was no stranger to Pacific motifs. His Fauna and Flora of the Pacific mural is on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. "The colorful map depicts the four Pacific Rim continents with examples of their flora and fauna suspended in a swirling Pacific Ocean populated with sea creatures.".

First edition of Melville's first book and his most popular during his lifetime. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in the original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece map, both half-titles and 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. BAL 13653. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper one month after publication, "Captain Ball, With the respects of the author, Westport April 18th 1846." The recipient, Captain Charles Ball was captain of the whaling ship Theophilus Chase, on which Thomas Melville, the author's youngest brother, set sail for the first time at the age of sixteen. Thomas's decision to follow in his older brother's footsteps was likely due to hearing Herman's stories of his time at sea which began in 1841 with his voyage aboard the whaling ship the Acushnet. Thomas set sail aboard the Theophilus Chase on March, 18 1846 for the South Atlantic from Westport but was homeward bound by April, at which point Herman apparently visited Westport and inscribed this copy of Typee, just one month after its American publication on March 17th. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books inscribed by Melville are scarce. Inspired by Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s new book Two Years Before the Mast and Jeremiah N. Reynolds's account in the May 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine of the hunt for a great white sperm whale named Mocha Dick, Herman Melville travelled to New Bedford, Massachusetts where he secured a position aboard the whaler Acushnet in 1841. On January 3, 1841, the Acushnet set sail and traveled to the Bahamas and the South Pacific, and later up the coast of Chile, to the Galapagos Islands, and Peru. In the summer of 1842, Melville and his shipmate Richard Tobias Greene jumped ship at Nuku Hiva Bay in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands where they stayed for several months before leaving the island aboard the Australian whaler Lucy Ann, bound for Tahiti. Melville would return home to write his first book, Typee, a provocative and lively account of his exploits in the exotic South Seas which made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals." "A classic of American literature [and] the pioneer in South Sea romance" (Arthur Stedman).

Hardcover. Third Edition. Octavo (8vo). xxxvi. 389pp. + frontispiece. Publisher's cloth boards with black stamped decoration and gilt titling. Signed and inscribed by the introducer: 'to Francis F. Browne, with cordial regards of Arthur Stedman, September, 1892.' Stedman was a close friend of Melville's and critically important both as a primary source for his late biography and as the earliest advocate of his works prior to their 20th century canonization. He first came into contact with Melville via his father, the poet/banker E.C. Stedman, who had formed an admiring friendship with the author after reading Moby Dick, a work of which he had 'often on his lips, and the recommendation by all odds to read it at once to nearly every young writer who sought his counsel.' In January 1888, after moving into close proximity to the Melvilles in New York, the elder Stedman would use his son as messenger, but as Hershel Parker writes in his monumental biography, Arthur 'form[ed] a greater intimacy with Melville than his father attained.' It was Arthur who would write the note on Melville's funeral in the October 1st, 1891 issue of the Tribune and provide a seminal personal account of him in his introduction to this present edition of Typee. This publication, issued shortly after Melville's death in a sustained effort to bring his works to the largest possible readership, was followed by the reprints of Omoo, White Jacket, and Moby Dick. William S. Reese writes that 'stedman made a valiant effort to revive Melville - but the publisher went bankrupt.' No doubt, the inscription to Francis Fisher Browne, was yet another attempt by Stedman to disseminate Melville's works, as Browne was the founder of the important literary journal The Dial and counted among his friends Walt Whitman and John Muir. Ironically, Melville's rightful fame might have come in his own lifetime had not, some thirty years earlier, Charles Scribner chosen to publish a submission of his poetry in lieu of the first book by Arthur's father, the much more well connected, E.C. An important association copy. [Parker, H. (2002). 'Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. 2.'] [Reese, W.S. (1993). 'Collecting Herman Melville' in 'The Gazette of the Grolier Club.'] VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with some hints of loss at the head and foot of the spine, lightly rubbed spine with several extremely light spots of discoloration, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Condition: Very Good. The Limited Editions Club New York 1935 Binding: Hardcover In very good condition, clean, tight and bright. 1139 of 1500 signed copies. $NRP.

First Edition. TYPEE -A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS, The Limited Editions Club, 1935, first edition, fine in like slip-case. 1/1,500 copies SIGNED by the artist, Miguel Covarrubias.