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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1859. vi-viii, 288pp; blue boards with rubbed edges, gilt title to spine, blind-staming to front and rear boards, light tanning to page edges.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
To Cuba and Back. A Vacation Voyage by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882) - 1859
by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882)
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To Cuba and Back. A Vacation Voyage
by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882)
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued.
Original brown pebble cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover blind-stamped Ticknor & Fields emblem. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Some slight rubbing to extremities; back free endpaper chipped, front free endpaper marked; some toning to pages; overall near fine. First Edition, First Printing. The Ads are dated April 1859. 12mo; 7.25 inches tall; viii, [9]-288 + 16 ad pp.and customs.. Best known as the author of Two Years Before the Mast, Dana only authored three books and this travelogue has significance as his travels were in 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States should try to annex the Spanish possession of Cuba.
His narrative includes his visits to Havana, a sugar plantation, a bullfight, and various churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and his views are expressed in this volume. [wiki]
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Original brown pebble cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover blind-stamped Ticknor & Fields emblem. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Some slight rubbing to extremities; back free endpaper chipped, front free endpaper marked; some toning to pages; overall near fine. First Edition, First Printing. The Ads are dated April 1859. 12mo; 7.25 inches tall; viii, [9]-288 + 16 ad pp.and customs.. Best known as the author of Two Years Before the Mast, Dana only authored three books and this travelogue has significance as his travels were in 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States should try to annex the Spanish possession of Cuba.
His narrative includes his visits to Havana, a sugar plantation, a bullfight, and various churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and his views are expressed in this volume. [wiki]
REF: BAL 4447
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- Publisher Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication Boston
- Date Published 1859
- Keywords Cuba, Description and travel; West Indies; Travelogue
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To Cuba and Back a Vacation Voyage
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To Cuba and Back. A Vacation Voyage
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. First edition, ads dated May, 1859. 1 vols. 12mo. Blue cloth. Rubbed and Stained, Good copy, fine internally. First edition, ads dated May, 1859. 1 vols. 12mo. BAL 4447
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). In original black TZ cloth (a variant not mentioned in BAL), stamped in blind on boards, titled in gilt on spine; brown coated endpapers; 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear, dated April 1859; [i]-viii, 288, 16pp. Tight and upright, a sturdy copy, with minor shelf wear, lacking front fly leaf, minor damage to front pastedown from the removal of a bookplate, contemporary pencil annotation to rear free endpaper, and the cloth apparently coated with a clear varnish: Good. Nineteenth-century travelers in hot climates--such as Cuba, perhaps--sometimes varnished the covers of their books to prevent insect or moisture damage. Robert Louis Stevenson protected his library this way while in Samoa. Dana, best known for his influential seafaring memoir Two Years Before the Mast, wrote this travel narrative after a trip to Cuba. He describes "Havana, the socioeconomic, political, religious, and cultural life of Cuba, the arduous…
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Blind-stamped brown cloth. Edges lightly rubbed, points frayed/bumped, spine ends frayed. PO inscription, Dana's signature on small paper affixed to ffep. Front hinge tender, occasional minor spots to leaves. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288+ pages; Signed by Author .
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