Two Years Before the Mast
by DANA, Richard Henry, Jr
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Beverly Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
First Readers Library edition. Octavo. Full red cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped on top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, fine.
HBS 66324.
$100.
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
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66324
- Title
- Two Years Before the Mast
- Author
- DANA, Richard Henry, Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Readers Library Publishing Co., LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Californiana|Nineteenth-Century Literature|Zamorano Eighty
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