White-Jacket; or the World in a Man-of-War.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1850. First American Edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. Crown octavo. viii 463pp [6]. First American edition, first printing with 6 pages of terminal advertisements, mis-signatured "Q*" on page 361, and other points mentioned in BAL. Bound in publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering, 2 white wove fly leaves (BAL calls this the second cloth binding). Scattered foxing throughout. Name on front free endpaper. Chipping and a closed tear to head of spine. Good. Item #70941
BAL 13662.
Price: $1,200.00
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