Author: MELVILLE, HERMAN; DICKENS, CHARLES; THACKERAY, W.M.
Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume VIII. December 1853- May 1854
Description: NY, Harper & Brothers. 1854, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition in original cloth. Bound volume VIII, containing six issues (December 1853- May 1854). Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8vo. 7" x 10", viii+864pp. illustrations and engravings throughout. Blind emboossed brown cloth with gilt titles, marbled endpapers. Wear at the extremities, short, closed tears at outer hinge cloth, bump crease to several sheets, mild foxing. Includes Melville's anonymously published short story "Cock a Doodle Doo - The Crowing of the Cock Beneventano"; Charles Dickens's "Schoolboy Story" ; chapters of W. M. Thackeray's serialized "The Newcomes". Articles include Bit of life in Oregon; Aboard a Sperm Whaler; Accession of the Emperor Nicholas; Case of Lady Macbeth medically considered; Very good. Very Good/No Jacket.

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