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First Edition, First Printing with the publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth with some rubbing and restoration to the spine. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the pages are clean with some soiling. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville, first published in 1856. The collection includes the following stories: "The Piazza", "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", "The Lightning-Rod Man", "The Encantadas", and "The Bell-Tower".