NMLP P-036774 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville · Harper & Brothers (New York) — US; Richard Bentley (London) — UK · 1851

US first (Harper & Brothers, New York, 14 November 1851): titled 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale,' issued in a single volume in a printing of about 2,915 copies; it CONTAINS the Epilogue (in which Ishmael survives) plus roughly thirty-five further passages that the earlier London edition omitted or altered

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036774 for "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036774, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).