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Books about Herman Melville -- Books by Herman Melville

Books about Herman Melville:

• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Raymond M. Weaver (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Herman Melville (New York: Literary Guild of America, 1929), by Lewis Mumford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ishmael (originally published 1956; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Baird (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (last revised 2018), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at humanist-art.org)

• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at Google; US access only)

• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at Google; US access only)

• Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee: A Fluid-Text Analysis, with an Edition of the Typee Manuscript (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by John Bryant, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Melville: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Louis J. Budd and Edwin Harrison Cady (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Michael S. Kearns (PDF at Ohio State)

• Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Meaning of Moby Dick (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), by William S. Gleim (page images at HathiTrust)

• Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee: A Fluid-Text Analysis, with an Edition of the Typee Manuscript (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by John Bryant, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Herman Melville:

• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, contrib.: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 (in Italian; Rome: United States Information Service, 1959), trans. by Mario Picchi and Franco Simongini, also contrib. by Robert L. Kincaid, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Schenck Miers, and Walt Whitman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches (Princeton: Princeton University Press, et al., 1922), contrib. by Henry Chapin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Bartleby, the Scrivener
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (with annotations) (HTML at slate.com)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (New York: Harper and Bros., 1866) (Gutenberg text)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War: A Facsimile Reproduction, With an Introduction (Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1960), contrib. by Sidney Kaplan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville (New York et al.: T. Yoseloff, c1963), ed. by Hennig Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Benito Cereno (HTML at esp.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Billy Budd (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (New York: Hendricks House, 1960), ed. by Walter E. Bezanson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857) (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Emoji Dick, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles (HTML at melville.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, contrib.: Great Sea Stories (New York: Brentano's, c1921), ed. by Joseph Lewis French, also contrib. by Charles Kingsley, Frederick Marryat, Michael Scott, Charles Reade, James Fenimore Cooper, Victor Hugo, David W. Bone, William Clark Russell, Pierre Loti, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Morgan Robertson, Jack London, and John Masefield
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (Gutenberg text)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: John Marr and Other Poems, ed. by Henry Chapin (Gutenberg text)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: John Marr and Other Poems (Princeton et al.: Princeton University Press, 1922), ed. by Henry Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: John Marr and Other Sailors, With Some Sea-Pieces (1888 and 1924 editions) (PDF and text with commentary at unl.edu)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Journal Up the Straits, October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857 (New York: The Colophon, 1935), ed. by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Lightning-Rod Man (HTML at melville.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Mardi, and a Voyage Thither (2 volumes; 1864)
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Mardi, and a Voyage Thither (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, contrib.: Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee: A Fluid-Text Analysis, with an Edition of the Typee Manuscript (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by John Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick (multiple editions)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick (exact edition unspecified) (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick (annotated electronic edition), ed. by Meg Guroff (HTML at powermobydick.com)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (New York: Harper and Brothers; London: R. Bentley, 1851)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick: or, The Whale (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902), illust. by I. W. Taber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick: or, The White Whale (Boston: St. Botolph Society, c1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick: or, The White Whale (Boston: Issued for the St. Botolph Society by L. C. Page and Co., c1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick: or, The White Whale (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), illust. by Mead Schaeffer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Moby Dick: or, The White Whale (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1942), illust. by Mead Schaeffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Omoo
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Boston: Issued for the St. Botolph Society by L. C. Page and Co., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (New York, Grove Press, ca. 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, A Sequel to "Typee" (Boston: D. D. Nickerson Co., c1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1856) (HTML at esp.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix and Edwards; London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1856)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (New York: Harper and Bros., 1852) (Gutenberg text)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Redburn: His First Voyage (Gutenberg text)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Selected works (at melville.org)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, contrib.: Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode (page images at Google; US access only)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Timoleon, Etc. (1891 and 1924 editions) (PDF and text with commentary at unl.edu)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Typee (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1923), illust. by Mead Schaeffer (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Typee: A Real Romance of the South Sea (Boston: The St. Botolph society, c1892), ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: Vier Monate auf den Marquesas-Inseln: oder, Ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben (Typee in German, 2 volumes in 1; Leipzig: G. Mayer, 1847), trans. by Rudolph Peter Garrigue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (New York: United States Book Company, c1892) (Gutenberg text)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: St. Botolph Society, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891: White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950) (page images at HathiTrust)

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