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[DANA, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882)]. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.
12o (150 x 95 mm). Original stamped tan muslin over boards (a few splits along joints). Provenance: Thomas Goddard Kent (bookplate) -- Frederick W. Skiff (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, third state, with the list of books on the back cover numbering 1-129 and 1-36. "One of the first and freshest, because of its plain factual nature, of American accounts of the sea, the book has added importance because ... Dana journeyed up into the California cattle country, of which he gives us our only trustworthy account before the 1849 gold rush" (Grolier American 46). BAL 4434; Cowan 1:156; Johnson High Spots 26; Zamorano 80 26.
12o (150 x 95 mm). Original stamped tan muslin over boards (a few splits along joints). Provenance: Thomas Goddard Kent (bookplate) -- Frederick W. Skiff (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, third state, with the list of books on the back cover numbering 1-129 and 1-36. "One of the first and freshest, because of its plain factual nature, of American accounts of the sea, the book has added importance because ... Dana journeyed up into the California cattle country, of which he gives us our only trustworthy account before the 1849 gold rush" (Grolier American 46). BAL 4434; Cowan 1:156; Johnson High Spots 26; Zamorano 80 26.