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Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr
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- Fine
- Condition
- Fine
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1969. Full dark blue leather (hard cover), gilt titles and embossed design to front and rear boards, raised bands, silk ribbon page marker, all edges gilt, silk moire endpages, (10 x 7.25 inches). Collector's Edition. 346 pages; Illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with an introduction by William McFee. A title from The Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Publisher's Collector's Notes laid-in. A clean, tight copy in "as new" condition. Collector's Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller. Tall Octavo.
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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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006115
- Title
- Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
- Author
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr
- Illustrator
- Hans Alexander Mueller
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- Tall Octavo
- Keywords
- Easton Press; Collector's Library
- Bookseller catalogs
- Easton Press;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
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