Author: DANA, RICHARD HENRY
Title: Two Years Before the Mast [Including Twenty-Four Years After] (in Maroon Leatherette Covers, Everyman's Library #588)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1922. Flexible Leatherette. A 1922 reprint of the 1912 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of Richard Henry Dana's classic memoir of his working trip on a voyage from New England to the coastal areas of California and back in the 1830s. This work provides a vivid account of the life of common seamen, and their sometimes harrowing jobs, such as the incredible difficulty of rounding Cape Horn during Antarctica's winter. Includes his account of his later return trip to San Francisco, entitled "Twenty-four Years After." With an introduction by J. E. Patterson, and the author's original preface. Entry 588 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In binding style 2, full maroon leather-covered boards with Reginald Knowles-designed gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations, gilt-stamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, elaborate Knowles woodcut art to title and frontis pages, top edge gilt. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With acidic stains to front and rear endpapers, mild chafing to cover extremities, otherwise a well-preserved, tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xii, 338 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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