The apple-tree table and other sketches
By: by Herman Melville ; with an introductory note by Henry Chapin.
Contributors: Chapin, Henry.; Princeton University Press.; Oxford University Press.; Humphrey Milford (Firm)
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Princeton; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Other titles: The apple tree table and other sketches.; The apple tree table.
Notes: BAL 13681
"First edition ... trade format"--BAL.
"Of the first edition of this book sixteen hundred seventy-five copies have been printed and one hundred seventy-five copies are on French hand-made paper and numbered of which one hunded fifty are for sale"--P. [2] at end.
Bound in green paper boards; tan V cloth shelfback; stamped in gold. In a protective box with Spec Coll PS2384.J56 1922.
Table of contents: title: The apple-tree table; title: Hawthorne and his Mosses; title: Jimmy Rose; title: I and my chimney; title: Paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids; title: Cock-a-doodle-doo; title: The fiddler; title: Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs; title: The happy failure; title: The 'gees.