Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.
Price: $1,250.00
Hardcover. First edition, second issue (with undotted “i” on the first line of the copyright statement); binding B, second state (with publisher’s advertisement on back cover listing titles numbered “1-121; 1-36; 1-27”). Harpers’ Family Library. No. CVI. 16mo. 483pp. In the original publisher’s printed tan muslin cloth over boards. Spine partly re-backed with cloth, the original spine back is laid down with loss along the joints, boards are moderately dust soiled, else very good with light scattered foxing to the endpapers. Richard Henry Dana’s first book. *BAL* 4434.
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