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Moby Dick...
Item # 602214
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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.
Complete in 150+ pages, 9 1/2 x 6 inches, disbound without the outer wrappers, with some lite scattered staining, otherwise in good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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