two years before mast personal de richard henry dana hans alexander (19 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrateur). AS NEW. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist from reading or improper shelving. No bumped corners. Pages are tight clean no marks. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No tobacco odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading. No wear to the slipcase.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No slipcase. Decorative cloth boards. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. 346 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Mueller, Hans Alexander (illustrateur). Heritage Press 1947, good condition but no dustjacket or slip case. Pictorial boards, tan and navy with edgewear all around. Faded spine. Text is very clean with minor foxing on end papers and age tanning. Multi color engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller throughout, introduction by William McFee. ; Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 346 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. Art by Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrateur). reprint?. 31884 shelf. Larger pictorial cloth, gold-stamped spine. No names, clean text. Lacks slipcase and Hourglass newsletter. Color wood-engravings. 346 p. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Mueller, Hans Alexander (illustrateur). No Edition Or Printing Stated. Reprint Of The 1947 Limited Editions Club Edition. The Sandglass Paper Is Laid In. The Book Is Bound In Pictorial Linen Over Boards With Gilt Lettering Within A Green Field On The Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Green. The Spine Has Darkened Slightly. The Green Paper Slip Case Is Age Toned At The Opening.

Hard Cover. Etat : vg+. Etat de la jaquette : vg. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrateur). Hardcover in slip case. xxii 346pp; contents clean; binding solid; b/w & gray illustrations; Heritage Club Sandglass laid in; 10.5" tall; navy lettering on front & spine of cream cover; no dj; light fading to edges of blue slipcase. Hardcover.

Hard Cover. Etat : vg+. Etat de la jaquette : vg. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrateur). Hardcover in slip case. xxii 346pp; contents clean; binding solid; b/w & gray illustrations; Heritage Club Sandglass laid in; 10.5" tall; navy letterin on front & spine of cream cover; no dj; light fading to edges of blue slipcase. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No dust jacket, as issued. Comes with the original slipcase. The slipcase is solid. The back/bottom has some wear. The bottom has a bit of shelf wear. The sides are showing some sunfade and a couple of scuffed areas. The book is clean, tight, and unmarked. The green topstain near the spine is showing some sunfade. No bumps or creases. Sandglass is laid in.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Slip Case. Mueller, Hans Alexander (illustrateur). First Edition Thus. Vivid Account Of A Sailor's Life In The Great Days Of American Sailing A Personal Narrative Which Is Most Truthful & Most Accurate., Nice Clean Text, Colored Illustrations, 346 Pages. Near Fine Blue Slip Case. With The Sand Glass Laid In. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Full Calf. Etat : VG Very Good. Collector's Edition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed aquamarine blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xx, 346. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the bow of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes. He later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana gives vivid descriptions of the different groups he encountered on the journey. He described Californios as lazy and remarked that the local Indians were effectively enslaved by them, yet he also described the Indians as lazy. He wrote disdainfully of the uncleanliness and sloppiness of whaling ships and even more so of the Russian vessel he encountered, claiming that the Russian crew actually "lived upon grease; eat it, drank it, slept in the midst of it, and their clothes were covered with it." The one group he seemed to view quite favorably were the native Hawaiians in the area, or Kanakas as they were called, saying they were honest, generous, hard-working folk.

NEW. These Easton Press books are fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers. Features: Bound in fine genuine leather with 22 karat gold decorations, all page edges gilded with 22 karat gold, raised spine hubs, sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks, high quality paper, silk moire endpapers, sewn pages for strength and durability. Easton Press books are issued without dust jackets. This copy is in NEW condition. Publsiher's 4-page note pamphlet for this title is included. We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997 AND IN OUR STORE IN THE BERKSHIRES FROM 1987 TO 2015.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Mueller, Hans Alexander (illustrateur). Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gold. Marbled end papers. Satin ribbon place holder as placed by the publisher. Unmarked but slightly creased bookplate laid in. Illustrations by Hans Alexander Mueller. Portrait frontispiece of the author. First published in 1840. A personal memoir of a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California. Easton Press Masterpieces of American Literature.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. For more than 30 years, the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound, profusely gilt classic leather bindings. "An astonishingly effective memoir of life as an ordinary seaman quartered 'before the mast' in the squalid space below decks, the book, a sensation in its own time, is a model of reportage, rife with the nautical jargon of a specialist and an anthropologist's descriptive mastery of life aboard ship and in the Pilgrim's then-exotic ports of call. It would influence generations of readers and writers and remains a mainstay on American reading lists. Dana's voyage took him into the south Atlantic Ocean, around Cape Horn, and to Alta California, then a sparsely settled province of Mexico. The ship's mission was to obtain cattle hides from ranchers at San Diego, Santa Barbara and other points along the coast. A naif not yet prejudiced by experience, Dana shares something new on every page: whale songs and icebergs, smashing storms, the captain's violent discipline, the total silence of the sea at night." - Smithsonian Magazine.

Hard cover. Müller, Hans Alexander (illustrateur). xx, 351 p. col. illus. 28 cm. Includes Illustrations. Copy no. 1419 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Hans Muller, whose colored pictures adorn the book. Bound in sailcloth which has darkened along the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Comes with a slipcase, also covered in sailed, which is soiled and foxed, particularly along the back edge. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

hardcover in slipcase. no jacket. engravings in color by Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrateur). 7 1/8 x 10 3/4 " 351 pages. This is copy 1098/1500 signed by the illustrator. typographic plans by Richard W. Ellis. bound in beige cloth with cloth slipcase. slipcase shows foxing and darkening with age. laid in is The Limited Editions Club Monthly Letter. shipping will be extra, please inquire. Near fine slipcase very good condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrateur). 27 x 18 cm. 351pp. Grey cloth with black leather spine label in grey cloth slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the engraver, Hans Alexander Mueller, of which this is copy 684. Some staining to the slipcase. Tiny chip out of leather spine label.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 1st of this Ed xx+346pp, frontis, color engravings, pict. cloth, slipcase nice rpt Howes D-49 Herd #642 in Cowan 6-Score #28 Merrill Aristocrat Zamarano 80-26 The hide and tallow trade in California. A classic and nicely printed.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Mueller, Hans Alexander (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition multi-color illustrated linen boards with bright gold spine lettering within a black block border. Includes Preliminary Page Quote from Coleridge's Wallenstein; Introduction by William McFee; and The Author's Preface dated July, 1840. Illustrated with color engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. First Edition thus. "A true American classic adventure book, Two Years Before the Mast is the true story written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. about his time at sea as a common sailor. Born into a wealth New England family in 1815, Dana had a youthful love of adventure. After suffering a severe attack of measles while studying in Harvard he joined the brig, Pilgrim, bound for the California coast, a trip that would last two years. Join Dana as he departs Massachusetts with a crazed captain and sails south round Cape Horn in South America through the icy waters of Chile towards California. Dana shares something ne on every page: whale songs and icebergs, smashing storns, the captain's violent discipline, the total silence of the sea at night. A true American Sailing Adventure Classic!" - from amazon dot com.