Description: Typee: A Narrative of the Marquesas Islands, by Herman Melville, with Illustrations by Guido Boer. New York: Aventine Press, (1931). First edition thus. Octavo (9" x 6"), viii & 360 pages, frontis map, & 6 color plates by Guido Boer. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket rubbed with small tear to top and bottom of spine. Else, fine copy in a good dj. The second book in the Aventine Classics series. "Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on the Melville's experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and research from other books. The title comes from the valley of Taipivai, once known as Taipi. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; it made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals." ~Courtesy Wikipedia.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Illustrator: Guido Boer
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Aventine Press
Topic: Travel, Adventure
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Polynesia, Marquesas Islands
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1931
