The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. [With A Bibliography Of The First Editions Of The Prose Works Of Herman Melville, By Michael Sadleir]. (The Works Of Herman Melville, Standard Edition: Volume Xii) Herman Melville

Top edge gilt. Spine very slightly darkened, corners of a few leaves in the bibliography slightly creased. [Edition limited to 750 copies] - the 12th volume in Constable's handsome 16-volume collected edition that, following Raymond M. Weaver's ground-breaking biography, Herman Melville: mariner and mystic (1921), revived a literary reputation that had stalled with Melville's death aged 72 in 1891. The set was published in three batches - volumes i-viii in 1922, ix-xii in 1923, xiii-xvi in 1924; volume xiii constituted the first publication of Billy Budd, the manuscript of which Weaver had found among Melville's papers. The Confidence-Man was published simultaneously by Dix, Edwards in New York and Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts in London in 1857.