HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, New York, December, 1851  Near the back of the issue is "Literacy Notices" which discusses "A new work by herman Melville, entitled Moby Dick; or, the Whale, has just been issued by Harper and Brothers... Moby Dick is the name of an old White Whale; half fish and half devil; the terror of the Nantucket cruisers...This huge sea monster has a conflict with one Captain Ahab...".
Additional articles are "The Boston Tea Party"; "Napoleon Bonaparte"; "Gold -- What It Is and Where It Comes From" and much more.
Ccomplete in 150+ pages, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, disbound without the outer wrappers, with some lite scattered staining, otherwise in good condition.