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Melville
TYPEE A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias
At the Harbor Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1935
291.50 €
Buddenbrooks Inc.
(Newburyport, United States of America)
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Edizione: a beautiful edition of melville's first book, a narrative based on his own experience in the south seas. typee was also melville's most popular book during his own lifetime, it made him famous as a man who lived among cannibals.<br> one of the fine productions from the limited editions club's heyday, the bright and bold paintings of miguel covarrubias are a wonderful contribution to melville's text. mexican in origin, covarrubias was no stranger to pacific motifs. his fauna and flora of the pacific mural is on display at the de young museum in san francisco. "the colorful map depicts the four pacific rim continents with examples of their flora and fauna suspended in a swirling pacific ocean populated with sea creatures."