Dana, Richard Henry — Two Years Before the Mast, a Limited Edition

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1983. Limited Editions Club. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A new reprint of the 1977 Special Limited Edition, and illustrated with the lovely color drawings of E. Boyd Smith. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual Franklin Library Limited Edition standards, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only the slightest shelf- and edge-wear, including single scuff to one fore-edge. Featuring decorated endpapers, bound-in silk ribbon bookmark, raised bands, all edges gilt, rich, colorful green leather covers, classy gilt decoration to cover and spine. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. 429 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine