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Click to view full description | 1. | NORDHOFF, CHARLES AND HALL, JAMES NORMAN. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1933. Hard Cover Very Good
The unforgettable and always fascinating novel of Fletcher Christian and Captain William Bligh; and their voyage to obtain Bread Fruit from Tahiti. A high seas adventure of H.M.S. Bounty which set sail from England in 1787 for Tahiti; with the harsh Lieutenant Bligh in charge, and the charismatic Fletch Christian, a ship full of hungry, angry, mistreated and weather beaten sailors. A South Sea adventure bringing the beauty and purity of 18th Century Tahiti; tyranny from an embittered Captain; a breaking point which bought rebellion and mutiny, and an unforgettable adventure. It was based upon factual events which had been almost forgotten, although John Barrows had published in 1831 an account of the mutiny. The authors decided to use Captain Roger Byan as the narrator. He had been a midshipman on the Bounty when the ship proceeded upon orders to collect a cargo of breadfruit trees from Tahiti for an experimental transplantion in the West Indies. During the voyage Bligh's inhumanity turned out to be more than the usual tyranny of the captain. Clark Cable starred in the first film, as Christian Fletcher and Charles Laughton as Bligh (1935); a 1962 remake with Marlon Brando as Fletcher. Blue cloth boards and spine, miled fading of edges, silvered sailing ship illustration to front board and spine. Spine lettering faded, rubbing to corner of upper spine end. A Philadelphia Inquire quotation of the book, pasted to f.e.p., previous owners name in pencil. E.P. toned tiny fox spots to various pages, marginal. Text clean, bright, binding tight. Front inside flap with price in book, along with a picture of the Bounty replica made for the 1935 film. 396 pp, 8 vo. Reprint, published October 1933.
Price: 14.50 USD | See Full
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 | 2. | NORDOFF, CHARLES AND JAMES HALL . PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First edition Cloth Very Good +
Nordoff and Hall carefully study all accounts, early and later of the discovery and settlement of Pitcarin Island. Which include 'The Bounty's' mutineers, 1790, and Captain Mayhew Folger, of the Topaz account of their refuge; as told to by the only surviving member Alexander Smith (John Smith). Smith also told Captain Stains and Pipon in 1814, and Captain Beechey in 1825, and finally in 1829 to J.A. Moerenhout, author of Voyages aux Illes du Grand Ocean. Later accounts were recorded by Walter Brodie, 1850, a narrative obtained from Authur, Matthew Quintal's son; and by Rosalind Young, in her 'Story of Pitcarin Island,' which gives various gruesome details from the memory of Eliza, daughter of John Mills. The authors, have adopted a chronology and selected a sequence of events which seem to them to render a more plausible play of the cause and effect of events. A list of the Pitcarin Community (the ''Bounty'' men and their Women, The Indian Men and Their Women); and a list of pronunciations.
Rust cloth boards, with silvered decoration of sailing vessel to boards and spine, Silvered lettering to spine.Upper spine end bumped. Light soil to front, rear boards have few intermittent black streaks. End papers decorated with map and facts of the Island, it's people, notating the Mutineers dwellings. No dw, clean text tightly bound. 8vo., 333, plus, The Trilogy of ''The Bounty,'' two unpaginated leafs. First Edition.
Price: 30.00 USD | See Full
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