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The confidence-man : his masquerade / Herman Melville ; with an afterword by R. W. B. Lewis.
LIBRA - Rare PS2384 .C6 1964 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Series:
- Signet classic ; CQ691.
- A Signet classic ; CQ691
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Mississippi River--Fiction.
- Mississippi River.
- Steamboats--Fiction.
- Steamboats.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : New American Library Times Mirror, [1964]
- Notes:
- "This is an authorized reprint of a hardcover edition published by Hendricks House, Inc."
- "This Signet Classic edition of 'The Confidence Man' is reprinted from the Hendricks House, Inc., edition, published in 1954. The 1954 edition is based on the American first edition, published in 1857 by Dix, Edwards & Co., New York. The Hendricks House corrected obvious typographical errors."--Note on the Text.
- "This edition does not include the Introduction or the Explanatory Notes from the Hendricks House edition."
- "First Printing, December, 1964."
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1975".
- OCLC:
- 3264119
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