NMLP P-036005 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War
Herman Melville · Richard Bentley (London) · 1850
Because sales of the Bentley printing were sluggish (under 400 copies sold by 1852), the publisher reissued unsold sheets under a cancel title page dated 1853, rebound in uniform red cloth; copies with this 1853 title page and red cloth are a later remainder issue, not the true first, which has the original blue blind-stamped cloth.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-036005 for "White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036005, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).