Author: DANA, RICHARD HENRY
Title: Two Years Before the Mast [Including Twenty-Four Years After] (First Everyman's Library Edition, el #588)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [1912]. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1912). 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 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed carmine cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With slight acidic staining to endpapers and prior owner's signature in pencil to front paste-down, otherwise a well-preserved, tightly-bound, sturdy copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xii, 338 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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