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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland/New York: Tower/World Publishing Company, 1945. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First Edition of this film tie-in version (First, Thus) from Tower Books, Feb. 1945, published to coincide with the Paramount movie starring Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, & Barry Fitzgerald. 414 pp. Hardcover small 8vo has matte black cloth over boards lettered in bright red to spine. Condition is VG: very clean, binding straight & strong, hinges secure, pages heavily tanned, commensurate with wartime quality paper, but unmarked. Old newspaper clipping advertising the film taped to ffep.Mild rubbing to extremities & bumped corners. The unclipped DJ (with scenes from the film on front & rear) is Good+: colorful & bright with mild-moderate edgewear, including chipping at all corners & both ends of spine, light creasing & short tears; nicely protected in new mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain at the Movies , Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature , Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic , Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock , and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism . He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.
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- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022106
- Title
- Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
- Author
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Tower/World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland/New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- TRUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY SEA VOYAGE ADVENTURE TRAVEL SAILOR SAILING FILM MOVIE CAPE HORN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Film/Television; Travel-Exploration-Adventure;
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