Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy

by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

Mutiny on the Bounty:

Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1932, First Edition. 8vo, [xii], 396pp. Publisher’s blue cloth with bright silver lettering and ship motif on cover and spine, some fading to board extremities, small dent at lower corner of front board; interior with no foxing, folds or tears, date of Nov. 18, 1932 on ffe; tight un-cracked hinges — Very Good condition. Dustjacket in very good condition and is un-clipped with price of $2.50, with very slight chipping to extremities.

Men Against the Sea:

Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1934, First Edition. 8vo, 251pp. Publisher’s green cloth with bright silver lettering and ship motif on cover and spine, very slight discoloration to spine, boards in excellent condition; internally with no foxing, folds or tears; no prior ownership markings, tight un-cracked hinges — A Near Fine copy. Dustjacket with old clear tape at head and foot of spine, otherwise in Near Fine condition and with original price of $2.00 inside front flap.

Pitcairn’s Island:

Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1934, First Edition. 8vo, [viii], 333pp. Publisher’s orange cloth with bright silver lettering and ship motif on cover and spine. No wear or fading to cloth, only a small dented corner at upper right of front board, otherwise; internally with no foxing, folds or tears; no prior ownership markings, tight un-cracked hinges — A Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is un-clipped and showing price of $2.50 inside front flap; very slight wear to extremities and in Near Fine condition.

A novel in three parts telling the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. He subsequently returns to Tahiti, and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial. He, and several other members of the crew, are eventually acquitted, although others are sentenced to death. A circumstance which makes The Bounty Trilogy more intriguing was that Sir Joseph Banks, Captain Bligh, and several others on the Bounty had been with Captain Cook during his famous voyages years earlier. The research Nordhoff and Hall did in the 1930s to create this trilogy arguably make it one of the finest historical novel of the 1900s.