Two Years Before the Mast
by Dana Jr., Richard Henry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued)
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Heritage Press, 1947. Nice copy. Moderate wear to gilt lettering on spine, else fine. Crisp, unread copy. Sandglass laid in. Slipcase green with tanning along perimeter of one panel. . Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013089
- Title
- Two Years Before the Mast
- Author
- Dana Jr., Richard Henry
- Illustrator
- Hans Alexander Mueller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Classic Author's;
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...