Front matter
Reading edition · Edition 2
AUTHOR OF “TYPEE,” “OMOO,” “REDBURN,” “MARDI,” “WHITE-JACKET.”
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY. 1851.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by HERMAN MELVILLE, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This Book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.