Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.

Price: $2,500.00

Hardcover. First edition, first issue. 16mo. BAL's Binding B (no priority) in original publisher's printed paper over boards. Contemporary pencil signature, and a small and attractive later bookplate, original spine perished and professionally replaced with appropriate cloth, some staining and rubbing on the boards, a sound, good copy, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. Laid in is a leaf of paper with Dana's Signature dated in 1852. *BAL 4434.*.

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Item #393600 Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. Richard Henry DANA, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Richard Henry Dana
birth name: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
born: 8/1/1815
died: 1/6/1882

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American lawyer and author of the popular autobiographical narrative Two Years Before the Mast. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore