first edition Hardcover
1840 · New York
by [DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first issue. 16mo. BAL's Binding B (no priority) in original publisher's printed paper over boards. Contemporary pencil signature, and a small and attractive later bookplate, original spine perished and professionally replaced with appropriate cloth, some staining and rubbing on the boards, a sound, good copy, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. Laid in is a leaf of paper with Dana's Signature dated in 1852. *BAL 4434.*.
(Inventory #: 393600)