(London: John Murray, 1847).

FIRST EDITION, OMOO is a story of the Marquesas and was written out of Melville's own sojourn there. This English issue preceded the American edition. the work is loosely based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. In this story, which picks up where Melville's first book, TYPEE, ends we find our un-named hero leaving the island of Nuku Hiva. He ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned. The narrator meets and forms a friendship with the vessel s surgeon, a tall thin man known to his crew-mates as  Dr Long Ghost. Item #28016

First Edition, the English issue, preceding the American issue by about a month. State A of the signature mark on p. 209. Full page cartographic frontispiece and the illustration at p. 78. 8vo., in an antique binding of dark brown-maroon over brown cloth boards, the spine with gilt panel enclosing the title lettered in gilt. [xiv], 321 pp. A handsome and very well preserved copy, with just pleasing bit of age. A fine survival of an important book, Melville's second.