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White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War by Herman Melville [1950 HARDCOVER] 9th Impression • L.C. Page

White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War by Herman Melville [1950 HARDCOVER] 9th Impression • L.C. Page

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White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War by Herman Melville 

VINTAGE HARDCOVER RE-PRINT [1950] L.C. PAGE & COMPANY

9th Impression circa 1950 of this U.S. hardcover edition first printed in 1892.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket is very good; chipping to top of spine and some tanned edges.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is in beautiful shape.  Slight discoloration to frontal boards.  

Reads beautifully with some tanning to pages.

Herman Melville wrote White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War during two months of intense work in the summer of 1849. He drew upon his memories of naval life, having spent fourteen months as an ordinary seaman aboard a frigate as it sailed the Pacific and made the homeward voyage around Cape Horn.

Already that same summer Melville had written Redburn, and he regarded the books as "two jobs, which I have done for money--being forced to it, as other men are to sawing wood." The reviewers were not as hard on White-Jacket as Melville himself was. The English liked its praise of British seamen. The Americans were more interested in Melville's attack on naval abuses, particularly flogging, and his advocacy of humanitarian causes. Soon Melville was acclaimed the best sea writer of the day.

Part autobiography, part epic fiction, White-Jacket remains a brilliantly imaginative social novel by one of the great writers of the sea.
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