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Richard Henry Dana,Jr.. Two Years Before The Mast, Vol.I. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1964.
Price: US$9.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1964. No Edition Remarks. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Volume I. No slipcase. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is bright and clear.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover, no dust jacket. 2 volumes. Enclosed in badly torn, scuffed and damaged heavy slipcase. Slightly worn boards; slight stain to outer edge of leaves of volume 2. pp.
Seller: Windows Booksellers, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast [2 Volumes]. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1964.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Dana, Richard. Two Years Before the Mast. Ward Ritchie, 1964.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers darkened on both of the 2 vols. Boxed - box also a bit darkened.
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition, thus. Edited from the original manuscript & from the first edition, with journals & letters of 1834-1836 and 1859-1860, and notes by John Haskell Kemble with original illustrations by Robert A. Weinstein, & illustrated from contemporary paintings, prints & charts; endpaper maps. Two octavo volumes in publisher-issued slipcase. Condition: bump to upper corner of slipcase; faint crayon marks to spines of both volumes; else near fine condition. Pages (combined both volumes): xxii, 552.
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An historically important document describing Alta California in the 1830's. Takes up where Richard Henry Dana leaves off in his classic 'Two Years Before the Mast'. LIMITED EDITION OF 1550 COPIES PRINTED BY THE WARD RITCHIE PRESS. Grey-blue cloth with embossed gilt decorative device to both covers. Illustrated and with a fold-out 1830 map of Alta California. Fine copy, very crisp and bright. The dustjacket spine is age toned. This copy with the ownership SIGNATURE OF JEAN BETHELL. Jean Bethell was Erle Stanlley Gardner's longtime secretary and later wife, and the inspiration for the character Della Street.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First published in 1840, this is the 1964 edition by Ward Ritichie Press, issued in 2 volumes. Edited from the original manuscript and from the first edition, with journal and letters of 1834-1836 and 1859 - 1860 amd notes edited by John Haskell Kemble. 2 FINE HARDCOVERS, not issued with dust jackets. Slipcase is not present. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: [xxii], 270 pp. / v2: [vi], 276-552 pp. Illustrations by Robert A. Weinstein. Cloth bindings, in slipcase, very good set. (76959). Edited by John Haskell Kemble.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus (originally published in 1840). 8vo. 2 volumes: xxii, 270; vi, [271]-552 pp. Plates, some in color, maps, endpaper maps, chapter headpieces; prospectus laid in. Howes D-49: "This account of California in 1835 and 1836 surpassed in popularity all other books relating to that state." Grolier Hundred 46: "One of the first and freshest of American accounts of the sea." Signed by Ward Ritchie under a collector's bookplate on verso of front endpaper. Illustrated tan cloth, publisher's illus. board slipcase (rubbed, edges abraded). Very good.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Edited from the original manuscript and from the first edition, with journals and letters of 1834-1836 and 1859-1860, and notes by John Haskell Kembel with original illustration by Robert A. Weinstein, and illustrated from contemporary paintings, prints and charts. 2 vols. xxii, 552p., b/w illus., original tan loth, in the original publisher's slipcase.
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes in slipcase, publisher's full illustrated cloth, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W maps, several B&W and color reproductions and photographs, and several drawings by Robert Weinstein. . Both volumes are in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Some mild wear around edges of slipcase, else fine. NEAR FINE . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxii, 552 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.92 + shipping
Description: Gr.8°, XXII, 552 S., zahlr. zweifarb. Abb., OLwd. in Schmuckschuber., Schuber min. beschienen u. berieben, Bücher tadell. «Edited from the original manuscript and from the first edition, with journals and letters of 1834-1836 and 1859, 1860, and notes by John Hasknell Kemble, with original illustrations by Robert A. Weinstein, and illustrated from contemporary paintings, prints and charts.» Text engl. 2500 gr. Schlagworte: SchiffahrtTechnik
Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland