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White-Jacket; or The world in a man-of-war. / By Herman Melville.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flagellation.
- Naval discipline.
- Naval history.
- United States--History, Naval--19th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Naval discipline--Fiction.
- Flagellation--Fiction.
- Warships--Fiction.
- Warships.
- Sailors--Fiction.
- Sailors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered pages-465 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- White-Jacket
- World in a man-of-war
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper and Brothers, Publishers ; London : Richard Bentley, 1850.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements (6 p.) at end.
- First printing: p. [iii] extract from Fuller's "Good Sea-Captain," "Note," dated New York, March 1850, p. [361] missigned Q*, and 6 p. publisher's advertisements--Cf. BAL.
- Cited in:
- BAL 13662
- OCLC:
- 1861381
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