[Literature] Melville, Herman Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian LifeLondon: John Murray, 1846. First English edition, first issue (with "Pomarea" in line one, p. 19). 8vo. xvi, 285, (1), 16 (ads, dated March, 1846). Illustrated with one map facing p. (1). Original red cloth, binder's variant A, stamped in blind and in gilt, unobtrusively rebacked with original spine laid down, corners moderately worn; some fore-edge text leaves lightly creased; rear hinge lightly worn; book-plate of bibliophile Kenneth Rapoport on front paste-down. BAL 13652A handsome first edition of Melville's first book, moremonly known as "Typee." Published a month before the American edition.