PIERRE: Or The Ambiguities. By Herman Melville. London: Sampson Low Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. 1852. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. viii + 495 + (i). No half-title. Blue embossed cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers.
Notes—(i) This book was published in November, 1852.
(ii) This English edition consists of American printed sheets with cancel title. It is as scarce as, if not scarcer than, the American edition, the bulk of which was destroyed by fire.
1855
ISRAEL POTTER: His Fifty Years of Exile. By Herman Melville. Author of Typee, Omoo etc. New York: G. P. Putnam and Co., 10 Park Place. 1855. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (280) [paged as (2) + 276 + (2)]. No printed half-title. Purple-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers.
Note—On the case, this book is entitled “Fifty Years Exile.” A pirated edition, under the title The Refugee, was published in Philadelphia in [1865].
1855
ISRAEL POTTER: His Fifty Years of Exile. By Herman Melville, author of Typee, Omoo etc. London: G. Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. 1855. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4 × 6½). Pp. 174. Bright yellow paper wrappers printed in black. The outside back wrapper is occupied by publishers' advertisements. Also issued simultaneously in cloth.
Note—This book was published in April, 1855.