"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.
Original document: Book.
Contents
The apple-tree table -- Hawthorne and his Mosses -- Jimmy Rose --I and my chimney -- Paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids -- Cock-a-doodle-doo -- The fiddler -- Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs -- The happy failure -- The 'gees.
Summary
This book collects Melville's essays and short pieces, edited and with an introduction by Henry Chapin.