NMLP P-034450 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Herman Melville · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1852

The novel was not reprinted in America for decades after its commercial failure; 20th-century scholarly and trade reprints (beginning in the 1920s Melville revival) are clearly modern editions and do not reproduce the original blind-decorated purple cloth and gilt spine lettering of the 1852 first edition.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-034450 for "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034450, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).