Fantastic AQS on an off-white 7 x 4 album page, in full: "Hours bright,—Herman Melville, March 8, 1882." Attractively cloth-matted and framed with a portrait of Melville and two engraved plaques to an overall size of 27 x 16.5. In fine condition, with three unobtrusive vertical folds.
Herman Melville (1819-1891) worked at a young age as a cabin boy and sailor on merchant vessels. During an unsuccessful whaling expedition, he took part in a mutiny, was jailed and escaped. His seafaring inspired many of his later works, including Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Omoo, a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) and his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851). Moby Dick, unlike his earlier works, was neither a critical or financial success—yet came to be celebrated as a great American novel. A highly desirable example of one of the rarest American literary autographs.
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