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The portable Melville / edited, and with an introduction, by Jay Leyda.
LIBRA - Rare PS2382 .L4 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Series:
- Viking portable library ; P58.
- The Viking portable library [P58]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century.
- American fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Literature--American.
- Local Subjects:
- Literature--American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 746 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Viking Press, [1952]
- Notes:
- "Two novels Typee and Billy Budd, complete. Self-contained portions of four other novels. Stories, including 'Bartleby', early and later poems, journals, marginalia and other writings specially arranged with pertinent Melville letters and comments by the editor to present Melville's life in his work."--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 743-746).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1975".
- Potok Collection copy is "Eleventh Printing August 1971".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Portable Melville.
- ISBN:
- 0670467103
- 9780670467105
- 0670010588
- 9780670010585
- OCLC:
- 1880017
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