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First American edition of Melville's greatest work. With the publisher's logo on the covers and orange endpapers. The American edition was the first to appear under the well-known title Moby Dick and contains 35 passages and the epilogue, which were omitted in the slightly earlier British edition. Moby-Dick was originally published in London earlier that year under the title entitled The Whale, based on its appearance in New York magazines. Now critically acclaimed, the novel was at the time a 'complete practical failure', misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 a fire at Harpers destroyed the plates of all his books and most of the copies still in stock.
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