NMLP P-034466 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville · Dix, Edwards & Co. (New York) · 1857

The novel went unreprinted for decades; later 20th-century scholarly editions (beginning with early Melville-revival reprints) are plainly modern productions and do not replicate the blindstamped arabesque cloth or the pasted-blank-leaf construction of the 1857 first printing.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-034466 for "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034466, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).