Typee

Undated (circa 1920s). xvi, 366pp, seven sepia plates (inc. frontispiece). Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Sun faded spine. Bumped spine ends and corners. Text block edges starting to tan. Purple endpapers. gutters stretched. Bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. Internally neat, clean and bright. No dust jacket. 16mo. Melville’s first book, based upon his own experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia. Herman Melville wrote Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley, after deserting the American whaling ship, Acushnet, in 1842.