MELVILLE (HERMAN) Moby-Dick; or, the Whale, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, New York, Harper & Brothers, and London, Richard Bentley, 1851MELVILLE (HERMAN)Moby-Dick; or, the Whale, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 6-pages of publisher's advertisements at end, some browning and spotting, publisher's first binding of blue-green cloth with publisher's circular blindstamp device on covers, orange-coated papers, spine lettered in gilt, split at upper section of upper hinge, corners and spine extremities rubbed, preserved in blue morocco-backed solander box [BAL 13664; Grolier, American 60], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, and London, Richard Bentley, 1851"CALL ME ISHMAEL" - An attractive copy of the first American edition, in the first binding, of Melville's classic whaling novel. This included some thirty-five passages and an epilogue which were not present in the English edition that had preceded it by a month.Provenance: D. Rosell Jr., bookplate inside upper cover; Sotheby's, 12 December 2012, lot 92.