Small thick 8vo, original cloth, extremities a little worn, extra illustrated title leaf, frontis., 444pp. A few leaves lightly foxed. WRIGHT, American Fiction II, 1145 ("Purportedly factual"). SABIN 31121.

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Title: FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, OR LIFE IN THE FORECASTLE, ABOARD OF A WHALER AND MAN-OF-WAR. SECOND EDITION, WITH APPROPRIATE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Publisher: (Philadelphia: Hazard, 1856).
Binding: Hardcover

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