MELVILLE, HERMAN | Works. London: Constable, 1922-24

MELVILLE, HERMAN

Works. London: Constable, 1922-24

16 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 in.; 227 x 147 mm). Title-pages printed in blue and black. Publishers blue cloth, covers blind-paneled, spines gilt-lettered and blind-paneled, brown slate endpapers; a fine set.

Standard edition, limited to 750 sets, incorporating the first edition of Billy Budd; numerous stories, prose pieces, and poems previously uncollected in book form; and a "Bibliography of the First Editions of the Prose Works of Herman Melville" by Michael Sadleir.