12mo, 444 pages, red decorated cloth, title-page separating at heel of page, hinges repaired. Issued in The Caston Edition variant binding. Listed as fiction by Wright II, 1145 - with the note, "Purportedly factual"), and as fact by Sabin 31121 ]. You read it and you decide. Hazen appears to be Jacob Andy Hazen of Muncy, Pennsylvania. He started life as a cobbler, then went to sea in the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, with a stop at Long Island. Read it and decide, truth or fiction, and send me a book report.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Five Years Before The Mast; or, Life in the Forecastle Aboard a Whaler and Man-of-War

Publisher

Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago

Publication Date

1887

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

New edition.

Condition

Good

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Payment may be by cheques, most credit or debit cards. All items are guaranteed to be as described. That is a lifetime guarantee - my lifetime, that is. TJJ

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