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Herman Melville’s Sea Tales. 4 Volumes. Edited by Arthur Stedman. New York, 1892, 1896; Boston, 1900, 1910, 1919.

Typee (with a biographical and critical introduction by the editor).
Omoo.
Moby-Dick.
White-Jacket.

Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas.... New York, 1846.

A Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life.... London, 1846, 1847, 1855, 1861.

Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life.... Revised edition, with a Sequel, The Story of Toby.... New York, 1846, 1847, 1849, 1855, 1857, 1865, 1871. London, 1892, 1893 (ed. H. S. Salt), 1898, 1899. Boston, 1902 (ed. William P. Trent). London, 1903 (ed. William P. Trent). London and New York, 1904 (ed. W. Clark Russell); 1907 (ed. Ernest Rhys). London 1910; another edition 1910 (ed. W. Clark Russell). New York, 1911 (ed. W. Clark Russell); 1920 (ed. A. L. Sterling). New York and London, 1921 (ed. Ernest Rhys).

Translated into German by R. Garrique, Leipzig, 1846; into Dutch, Haarlem, 1847.

Omoo: a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas.... New York, 1847 (five editions the same year). London, 1847, 1849. New York and London, 1855. London, 1861. New York, 1863, 1868. London, 1892, 1893 (ed. H. S. Salt). London and New York, 1904 (ed. W. Clark Russell); 1908 (ed. Ernest Rhys); 1911 (ed. W. Clark Russell); 1921 (ed. Ernest Rhys).

Translated into German by F. GerstÄcker, Leipzig, 1847.

Mardi: and a Voyage Thither.... New York, 1849 (2 volumes). London, 1849 (3 volumes). New York, 1855, 1864.

Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service.... New York, 1849. London, 1849 (2 volumes). New York, 1855, 1863.

Translated into German by L. Marezoll, Grimma, 1850.

White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War.... New York, 1850. London, 1850 (2 volumes). New York and London, 1855. London, 1892, 1893, 1901.

Moby-Dick; or, the Whale.... New York, 1851.

The Whale.... London, 1851, 1853 (3 volumes).

Moby-Dick; or, the Whale.... New York, 1863. London, 1901 (ed. L. Becke). London and New York, 1907 (ed. Ernest Rhys). London, 1912; 1920 (ed. Violet Maynell). London and New York, 1921 (ed. Ernest Rhys). The editions since 1892 have borne the title Moby-Dick; (or) the (Great) White Whale.

Pierre: or The Ambiguities.... New York, 1852, 1855.

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile.... New York, 1855 (three editions in the same year). London, 1855, 1861. (The book appeared serially in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, July, 1854-March, 1855. It was pirated at Philadelphia, n. d. (entered 1865), as The Refugee, with the original dedication and table of contents omitted).

The Piazza Tales.... New York, 1856. London, 1856. (Contains: The Piazza; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The Lightning-Rod Man; The Encantadas; The Bell-Tower).

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.... New York, 1857. London, 1857.

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.... New York, 1866.

Clarel: a Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land.... New York, 1878.

John Marr and Other Sailors.... New York, 1888. (Privately printed).

Timoleon, etc. New York, 1891. (Privately printed).

CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAGAZINES, ETC.

Fragments from a Writing Desk. The Democratic Press and Lansingburgh Advertiser, 4 May; 18 May; 1849.

Hawthorne and His Mosses, By a Virginian Spending a July in Vermont. Literary World. 17 Aug.; 24 Aug.; 1850.

The Town-Ho’s Story. (Ch. 54 of Moby-Dick.) Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Oct., 1851.

A Memorial to James Fenimore Cooper. Discourses and tributes by Bryant, Bancroft, Irving, Melville, etc., etc. New York, 1852.

Bartleby, the Scrivener. A story of Wall-Street. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. Nov.-Dec., 1853.

Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Cock of Benentano. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Dec., 1853.

The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, by Salvator R. Tarnmoor. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. March-May, 1854.

The Lightning-Rod Man. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. Aug., 1854.

Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. June, 1854.

Happy Failure. A Story of the River Hudson. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. July, 1854.

The Fiddler. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Sept., 1854.

Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. April, 1855.

The Bell-Tower. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. Aug., 1855.

Benito Cereno. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. Oct.-Dec., 1855.

Jimmy Rose. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Nov., 1855.

The ’Gees. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. March, 1856.

I and My Chimney. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. March, 1856.

The Apple-Tree Table: or, Original Spiritual Manifestations. Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. May, 1856.

The March to the Sea (poem). Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. Feb., 1856.

The Cumberland (poem). Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. March, 1866.

Philip (poem). Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. April, 1866.

Chattanooga (poem). Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. June, 1866.

Gettysburg: July, 1863 (poem). Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. July, 1866.

The History of Pittsfield, Mass., Compiled and written, under the general direction of a committee, by J. E. A. Smith, Pittsfield, 1876. (The account of Major Thomas Melville, pp. 399-400, was written by Melville.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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