Male : Novelist & poet. In 1839 he shipped as a cabin boy to Liverpool and later sailed for the South Seas on the whaler "Acushnet" (1841). Jumping ship he had many experiences in the islands of the Pacific and returned to New York to write about them. Married Elizabeth Shaw in 1847

Nationality : American Place of Birth : New York

Date of Birth : 1819 Date of Death : 1891 Age : 72

Other Work : Journalist

1846-1850
Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846 Wiley & Putnam, NY)
Offered in 1996 at £450
Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley on the Marquesas Islands,
or a Peep at Polynesian Life (1846 Murray)
Omoo : a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847 Harper)
Offered in 1998 for £1030
(1847 Murray)
The Story of Toby : A Sequel to Typee (1847 Murray)
Redburn : His First Voyage (1849 Harper)
Mardi, and A Voyage Thither (1849 London)
(1849 Harper) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £2575
Redburn : His First Voyage (1849 Bentley) - 2 vols (1849 Harper)
White-Jacket : or the World in a Man-of-War (1850 Harper) (1850 Bentley - 2 vols)

1851-1860
Moby-Dick, or The Whale (1851 Bentley, London) - later as Moby Dick
(1851 Harper, NY) - 2915
Offered in 1998 for £15,470
[Filmed in 1930 & 1956]
Pierre : of the Ambiguities (1852 Harper)
Offered in 1999 for £1820
[Filmed in 1999 as "Pola X"]
Bartleby, the Scrivener : A Story of Wall Street (1853 Putnam)
[Filmed in 1970]
Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile (1855 Putnam)
The Piazza Tales (1856 Dix & Edwards, NY)
Offered in 1998 for £1780
The Confidence Man : His Masquerade (1857 Dix, Edwards NY)

1861-1900
Moby Dick, or The Whale (1863 Harper NY. 3rd Ed)
The Refugee (1865 T B Peterson, Phila)
Battle Pieces & Aspects of the War (1866 Harper NY)
Offered in 1999 for £1215
Clarel : A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) - verse epic
John Marr & other Poems (1888) (1922 Princeton UP - 1675)
Timoleon (1891)
Billy Budd (1888-91) (not publ until 1924)
[Filmed in 1962]

1901-1940
The Apple Tree Table (1922)
The Works : Standard Edition (1922-4 Constable) - 16 vols. 750
John Marr and Other Poems (1922 Princeton UP) - 175 (of 1675) on handmade paper
Benito Cereno (1926 Nonesuch Press) - 1650. E McKnight Kauffer
Moby Dick or The Whale (1930 Lakeside Press, Chicago) - 3 vols. 1000. Rockwell Kent
Offered in 1991 for £225
[Plus - a set in an aluminium case, signed by Kent, for £1300 in 1991 & £1725 in 1999]
Moby Dick or The Whale (1930 Random House, NY) - Rockwell Kent
Journal Up the Straits (1935 The Colophon, NY) - 650
Typee (1935 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Miguel Covarrubias
The Encantadas or, Enchanted Isles (1940 W P Wreden, Burlingame) - 550

After 1941
Selected Poems (1943 Hogarth Press) - edited by William Plomer
Moby Dick or The Whale (1943 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols - Boardman Robinson
Selected Poems (1944 New Directions)
Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent (1948 Harvard UP)
Journal of a Visit to Europe and the Levant (1955 Princeton UP)
Letters (1960)
Omoo (1961 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Reynolds Stone
Billy Budd (1965 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Robert Shore
Moby Dick or The Whale (1975 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by LeRoy Neiman
Moby Dick, or The Whale (1977 Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut) - Boardman Robinson

READING
R M Weaver : Herman Melville - Mariner & Mystic (1921 Doran, NY)
Meade Minnigerode : Some Personal Letters, and a Bibliography (1922 Brick Row Bookshop, NY) - 1500
John Freeman : Herman Melville (1926 Macmillan)
W E Sedgwick : Herman Melville : The Tragedy of Mind (1945 Harvard)
Charles Olson : Call Me Ishmael - A Study of Melville (1947 Reynal & Hitchcock, NY) (1967 Cape)
Leon Howard : Herman Melville - A Biography (1951)
Jay Leda : The Melville Log - A Documentary Life of Herman Melville (1951 Harcourt Brace) - 2 vols
G T Tanselle : A Checklist of Editions of Moby Dick (1976)
(Ed) Lynn Horth : Correspondence (1993 NW University Press)
Hershel Parker : Herman Melville - A Biography Vol 1 1819-1851 (1996 John Hopkins UP £27.50)