DANA, Richard Henry, Jr

Autograph Letter (Al) of Consolation for the Loss of a Brother at Sea

Boston, 9 November 1870. Letter. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on both sides of a 4-1/2" x 7-1/4" sheet to "My Dear Davis," possibly Lt. Charles Henry Davis whom Dana had previously represented in court. In addition to being the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, Dana was a practicing lawyer specializing in maritime law, especially justice for seamen. This particular letter is very personal and seems to be complete, though it is not signed by Dana who is consoling Davis for the loss of his brother at sea. In full: "I wish to offer you my condolence on the loss of your distinguished brother -- for I suppose there is no longer hope. This comes close [to] home to me; for I made the passage out in the [?] only the second before her wreck. I came to know the captain and officers well, as is my wont at Sea, and the qualities and condition of the [?]. A few months ago, I lost a brother, long an invalid, who had for years given up the hope of [?], and who died a death of lingering pain. You are, at once, by a sudden wrench from life, called to mourn a brother, in the full vigor of conscious merit and ability to act. Lo, one way or another, there [?] of life and death, -- of the certainty of nothing mortal and material are taught us." Most Dana letters are regarding legal matters. Seldom is found one with such personal content. About Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020655

Catalogue: Autograph Letter

Keywords: Autograph Letter, Maritime Law, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature Autograph Letter 19th Century American Literature Literature: American Maritime Law

DANA, Richard Henry, Jr

Autograph Letter Signed (Als)

Boston, 16 August 1850. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on a 7-3/4" x 9-3/4" sheet of blue paper SIGNED as "R. H. Dana Jr." to an unknown recipient on legal matters regarding Caleb Smith. Dana is best known as the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. Faint stain on left side from previous mounting on verso; light creases. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 021342

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Maritime Law, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature Signed 19th Century American Literature Literature: American Autographs

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1859. Hardcover. Green leather covers, embossed art front/bacl, gilt lettering spine. 288 pages. Contents: Introduction: Culture Jamming -- Autumn -- Mood Disorders -- The Ecology of Mind -- Media Virus -- The Manchurian Consumer -- Posthuman -- Winter -- The Cult You're In -- The End of the American Dream -- The Unofficial History of America -- Your Corporate Connection -- The Global Economic Pyramid Scheme -- Spring -- The Revolutionary Impulse -- The New Activism (Fire in the Belly) -- The Meme Wars -- The Meme Warrior -- Summer -- Rage -- The Second American Revolution (An Assertiveness Training Workshop for Culture Jammers) -- Grounding the Corporation -- Demarketing Loops -- Media Carta -- Redefining Progress -- Epilogue: The Millennial Moment of Truth. G+/G, covers show wear and rubbing, back cover soiled. Spine is faded, ex-library marks. Previous owner label inside front cover. Pages are clean and tight.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 183257

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel; Cuba ; Cuba ; ;

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

Two Years Before the Mast; a Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, 1964. Edited from the original manuscript and from the first edition, with journals and letters of 1834-1836 and 1859-1860, and notes by John Haskell Kembel with original illustration by Robert A. Weinstein, and illustrated from contemporary paintings, prints and charts. 2 vols. xxii, 552p. b/w illus. original tan loth, in the original publisher's slipcase. .

Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILABProfessional seller

Book number: 036024

Keywords: Dana Maritime Americana California Voyages

[Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. 1815 - 1882]

TWO YEARS BEFORE The MAST. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. The Family Library. No. 106

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. 2nd printing [presumed] of a work first issued in 1840 (cf. BAL 4434; Howes D49 Johnson: AMERICAN HIGHT SPOTS, pp. 26-27). Original dark brown cloth binding [BAL 'A'] with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 483, [3 (blank)] pp. 18mo, in 6s. 6-1/4" x 4". Square & tight. Bright spine gilt Some staining to text-block. A VG copy.

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 33624

Catalogue: Literature

DANA, RICHARD HENRY JR.

Two Years in the Mast (Two Volumes)

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1964. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Robert Weinstein. Two volumes in slipcase, publisher's full illustrated cloth, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W maps, several B&W and color reproductions and photographs, and several drawings by Robert Weinstein. Both volumes are in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Some mild wear around edges of slipcase, else fine. NEAR FINE . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxii, 552 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 12818

Catalogue: Memoirs

Keywords: Memoirs; Biography; History History Biography & Memoir

DANA, RICHARD HENRY, JR.

Two Years Before the Mast

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Limited Edition. 1. Leather. Illustrated by Ronald Keller. Publisher's full blue leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering or decoration in each compartment, intricate gilt decoration on both covers, blue moire silk endpapers, printed on archival paper, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth sewn, and with concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. Illustrated with full-page B&W plates by Ronald Keller. Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family, who gained renown as the author of this memoir, Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim). He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xv), 555 pp. As New with no dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 17281

Catalogue: Memoir

Keywords: Sailboats Sailing California Memoir; Travel Illustrated Books Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

DANA JR., RICHARD HENRY

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1969. Hardcover. ISBN: 0571101674. An illustrated reprint edition in slipcase of author's classic memoir of his working trip on a voyage from New England to the coastal areas of California in the 1830s. Includes his account of his later return trip to San Francisco, entitled "Twenty-four Years After." Includes illustrations by Hans Alexander Mueller and an introduction by William McFee. Sandglass leaflet laid in (Norwalk, no number). --- In white cloth-covered boards with titling and seagull images in navy to cover and spine. Slipcase covered in blue paper. --- With faint yellowing to spine, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Slipcase with slight rubbing but sound and fully functional. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.); Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; xx, 346 pages. Very Good+ .

Bluebird BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 85975

Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure >>Illustrated Classics

Dana, Jr., Richard Henry

Two years before the mast : twenty-four years after

London : Dent ; New York : Dutton 1976. Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv. 346 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Voyages and travels. Seafaring life. English fiction. English fiction; 20th century. Drama. English literature; 20th century. English literature. ISBN: 0460015885.

MW BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 353551

Keywords: 0460015885

"Dana, Richard Henry jr"

"Two Years before the Mast"

"The World Publishing Company / Rainbow Classics", "1946, hardcover, scheurtjes in stofomslag / small tears in dustjacket". .

Boekhandel Louis TinnerProfessional seller

Book number: 221306536

Catalogue: geschiedenis

RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR.

Two Years Before The Mast Folio Society

Folio Society. 1986. hardcover, 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Very Good.

M. Godding Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 264765

Catalogue: Geography and Travel

Dana, Richard Henry Jr.

Two Years Before the Mast; a Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.

Fine Editions Press, 1946. Hardcover. Illustrated by Alexander Dobkin Near Fine quarter-bound book with slightly worn edges to leather spine, embossed with bright gilt titles. Top page ends have flawless gilt. Book has been carefully read. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. A handsome copy of a classic sea tale. Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 415 pages. A3. Near Fine.

Sweet Beagle BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33765

Keywords: Ships and Sea Fiction

Morris, Wright (afterword); Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Two Years Before the Mast

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1964. 8vo. 383 pp. Very Good, Paperback, text block yellowed; rubbing, edge wear on covers; shelf wear. First Signet Printing. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15-3159

Catalogue: Books

Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) , J. van Der Hoeve , J.G. Baggerman

Twee jaar voor de mast 1834 - 1836. Een waar verhaal van het matrozenleven op zee

1977. Paperback. Pp: 256. In 1840 gepubliceerd verslag over een reis van twee jaar op een Amerikaans koopvaardijschip, waaruit een beeld van het zware zeemansbestaan in die dagen naar voren komt. ISBN: 9789060459805. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

De SlegteProfessional seller

Book number: 118058

Catalogue: Reizen

Keywords: 9789060459805

Sterling, George : (Robinson Jeffers); Bret Harte (George R. Stewart, Jr); Frank Norris (Franklin Walker); Richard Henry Dana (James D. Hart); John Muir (Charles Keeler); Henry George (Howard Jay Graham).; Joaquin Miller (Juanita Miller); Josiah Royce (B.

The Letters of Western Authors: A Series of Letters, Reproduced in Facsimile, of Twelve Distinguished Pacific Coast Authors of the Past, Each with a Comment by a Contemporary Western Writer. First Edition. Complete Set

San Francisco: Book Club of California , 1923. 4to. 12 folders, as issued in quarter morocco chemise and slipcase, a little worn. Ex libris of David Anderson. Facsimile letters with commentaries by notables of 1935. 1) George Sterling (Robinson Jeffers). 2) Bret Harte (George R. Stewart, Jr). 3) Frank Norris (Franklin Walker). 4) Richard Henry Dana (James D. Hart). 5) John Muir (Charles Keeler). 6) Henry George (Howard Jay Graham). 7) Joaquin Miller (Juanita Miller). 8) Josiah Royce (B. H. Lehman). 9) Mark Twain (C. S. Wood). 10) Clarence King (Francis P. Farquhar). 11) Edward Rowland Still (Aurelia H. Reinhardt). 12) Jack London (Charmian London). .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 51-2635

Catalogue: Ephemera