TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF LIFE AT SEA

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

$10,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New-York: Harper & Brothers -- 82 Cliff-Street, 1840. 15.2x9.5 cm 12mo , pp. 1-3 4-483 484: blank , flyleaves at front and rear, publisher's tan muslin printed in black. First edition, presumed first printing, second state binding. The probable first of two printings dated 1840 the dot over the i in in is present in the first line in the copyright notice, and the running head on page 9 is not broken . BAL's

• Printing: first

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