first edition Hardcover
1991 · Albuquerque
by (MELVILLE, Herman). Paul Metcalf and Clare Spark
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edited and annotated by Paul Metcalf. Cover by Michael McCurdy. Slim small quarto. 99, [1] pp. Fine in modestly spine-sunned else fine dust jacket. Paul Metcalf, poet and novelist, was Herman Melville's great-grandson. "The 'pretty impertinent and prying' questions asked by a UCLA doctoral candidate of Herman Melville's great-grandson led to this fascinating correspondence regarding the Melville Revival" (publisher's summary). (Inventory #: 526940)