MELVILLE, Herman.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-152387
The Limited Editions Club Edition of Herman Melville's Typee; Signed by the Illustrator Miguel Covarrubias
The Limited Editions Club edition of Melville’s romance of the South Seas. Octavo, bound in full Polynesian tapa cloth with printed spine titles and decorations, illustrated in color by Miguel Covarrubias. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by Miguel Covarrubias on the colophon, this is number 193. In very good condition. Small printed bibliographic description tipped in to the pastedown. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Housed in the original publisher’s patterned slipcase.
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, first published in 1846, was Herman Melville’s first book and his most popular during his lifetime. Drawn from his own experiences after jumping ship in the Marquesas Islands, it recounts a sailor’s sojourn among the Typee, a Polynesian people reputed to be cannibals, blending adventure, romance, and ethnographic observation with a pointed critique of Western missionary and colonial influence in the Pacific. Its success established Melville’s early reputation as the man who had lived among the cannibals, years before the commercial failure of his masterpiece Moby-Dick. This Limited Editions Club edition pairs the text with the vivid color illustrations of the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias and is bound, fittingly, in Polynesian tapa cloth.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas.
$750.00
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