241 pp. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of author by Chris Simon, illustrations heading chapters by Penny Havard. A collection of thirteen short works by the author of Moby Dick. Includes: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! or The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano; The Two Temples; Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs; The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids; The Lightning-Rod Man; The Happy Failure: A Story of the River Hudson; The Fiddler; Jimmy Rose; The Bell-Tower; I and My Chimney; The Apple-Tree Table or Original Spiritual Manifestations.
