Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Edition de Grand Luxe. [12260]
Three-quarter morocco with vibrant marbled paper boards, matching marbled end papers, top page edges gilt, 6 gilt-decorated spine panels, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some light rubbing to the edges; bottom of spine a bit dark, light scuff to front board; thin loss of leather at spine bottom. Etching frontispiece, letter press tissue guard, xiii, [1], 432 clean pp., six additional plates with letter press tissue guards. Good. Hardcover.
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