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Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville
Simon & Schuster Enriched Classic Series
$20One copy · this copy

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Book
Near Fine
Our ref
RCB-a1d6c32a9797
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-a1d6c32a9797 · 6 photographs of this copy
Simon & Schuster Enriched Classic series paperback — a modern reprint imprint
examined on the copy in hand
Cover states 'Complete and Unabridged' and 'Includes detailed explanatory notes, an overview of key themes, and more'
examined on the copy in hand
Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson (rear cover) — 21st-century series
examined on the copy in hand
Copyright page shows a descending number line but is too blurred to read the lowest digit
examined on the copy in hand
Text block is a small mass-market trim, tanned/toned paper
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
Uniform age-toning/tanning to page edges and text block
noted on the copy in hand
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Light shelf handling to covers
noted on the copy in hand
This copy
As described

What a true first shows: No. Billy Budd was first published posthumously in 1924 (Constable, London). This is a modern Simon & Schuster Enriched Classic mass-market paperback reprint, not a first edition of the work.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.