Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life, by Herman Melville

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The instance Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life, by Herman Melville represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life, by Herman Melville

Statement of responsibility

by Herman Melville

Instantiates

• Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life

Publication

• London, J. Murray, 1846

Note

• First American edition (New York, Wiley and Putnam; London, J. Murray, 1846) has title: Typee: a peep at Polynesian life
• Sequel: Omoo

Dimensions

18 cm.

Extent

xvi, 285, [1] p.

Lccn

45028411

Note

Spec. Coll. copy is part of a collection (Collection 548). To page this item, use the collection record; to find the collection record, search the title: Shneidman collection of books relating to Herman Melville. Item is in box 10. Half bound in brown calf; red, blue and yellow marbled paper over boards. All edges marbled. Bookseller card and envelope clipping with address laid in. Gift, Edwin S. and David W. Shneidman.

Other physical details

map.

Record ID

3648653

System control number

• (OCoLC)09594013
• ucoclc9594013