Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard Henry Dana

$2,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition, first printing, first issue with dotted i on copyright page. BAL's A binding no priority . Bound in publisher's original dark brown pebbled cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Very Good, rebacked with remnants of original spine laid down, wear to edges. Light staining to textblock edge and contents foxed. A memoir written after Dana's two-year voyage on a merchant ship

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