Price: $450.00
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Book Condition: Near Fine
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 hos views are expressed in this volume. [wiki]
Original brown pebble cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover blindstamped 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. Ads dated May 1859 in back. [BAL 4447]; 12mo; 7.25 inches tall; viii, [9]-288 + 16 ad pp.
REF: BAL 4447
Title: To Cuba and Back. A Vacation Voyage
Categories: 19th Century Travel and Exploration, A. TRAVEL, GEOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION, 19th CENTURY: Literature and Works, Cuba [including history],
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1859
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Type: Book
Seller ID: 010733
Keywords: Cuba -- Description and travel.,