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Two Years Before the Mast: Or, a Voice from the Forecastle: Being A Sailor's Life at Sea.
de DANA, Richard Henry, Jr
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London: Published by J. Cunningham, 1841. Bound together with The Kinsmen: Or the Black Riders of Congaree. A Tale. London: Published by J. Cunningham, 1841.
Scarce British edition with preface dated July 1840. Octavo. [1-6], 7-156 pp. [1-3], 4-176 pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards. Boards and spine scuffed, spine split yet boards are nice and tight. A very good copy of a scarce English edition published the same year as the first English edition.
HBS 66370.
$500.
Scarce British edition with preface dated July 1840. Octavo. [1-6], 7-156 pp. [1-3], 4-176 pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards. Boards and spine scuffed, spine split yet boards are nice and tight. A very good copy of a scarce English edition published the same year as the first English edition.
HBS 66370.
$500.
Sinopsis
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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- Título
- Two Years Before the Mast
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- DANA, Richard Henry, Jr
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- Published by J. Cunningham
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1841
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- Maritime
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- Tight
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