1911 Two Years Before The Mast HC Book R. H. Dana Jr. Antique VERY RARE EDITION

  
This is a 1911 first year edition.. What makes this very rare is it's cover.. It has the same style as all the other first year editions but it's not highlighted in gold! It's just blue ink. I don't know if the very first edition came out with just blue ink and then they followed with gold after the fact or not.. But that's my assumption at this point.. Which would make this perhaps even a galley copy?

They wouldn't have used gold in the first offerings to sell this book? I'm not very well-versed in this genre..

Please contact me I'd love to hear from you. Otherwise have fun looking at the pictures!

I did flip the pages that's why the photographs of the pages are blurred as the pages are being flipped through.. There is some age in the cover but the the paper itself is in great condition.. It was signed by somebody named Jenkins in 1920. You'll see that in the pictures as well.