The Mutiny on the Bounty & Captain William Bligh, R.N.

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Allen, Kenneth S. That Bounty Bastard: The True Story of Captain William Bligh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. 1st American publication. 224 pages. Index. Sources. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25542. $15
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Anthony, Irvin, editor. The Saga of the Bounty: Its Strange History as Related by the Participants Themselves. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1935. 1st printing. xiv, 358 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. 'The original journals, diaries, letters, accounts and testimony of the men themselves, arranged in chronological sequence, with the authentic drama, without fictional interpretation, or repetition.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in worn, chipped and torn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front endpaper.. #25543. $10
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Ball, Ian M. Pitcairn: Children of Mutiny. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. 1st edition, 1st printing. xiv, 380 pages. Index. Photographs. Endpaper maps. 'A study of an extraordinary society with a new look at the Bounty mutiny and the roles of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian. - Front jacket. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. ISBN 0316079383. #25544. $7.50
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Bligh, William, and Francis Godolphin Bond. Fresh Light on Bligh. Being Some Unpublished Correspondence of Captain William Bligh, R.N., and Lieutenant Francis Godolphin Bond, R.N., with Lieutenant Bond's Manuscript Notes Made on the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Providence,' 1791-1795. Edited, with an introduction by George Mackaness. Sydney, Australia: Privately Printed. D. S. Ford, Printers, 1953. Limited edition. 84 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Signed by George Mackaness, the editor. This is an expanded version of Australian Historical Monographs XIX. One of 135 copies for sale and 15 for presentation privately printed by the author, numbered and signed. This is signed copy #72. Very good stiff wrappers. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25556. $70
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Clune, Frank. Journey to Pitcairn. Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1966. 1st printing. xviii, 245 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper illustrations. Includes an account of the author's stay on Pitcairn Island and of the life lived by the Pitcairners of today - the descendants of the few families who returned from the mass migration to Norfolk Island. He watched them at work in their gardens and homes, at their crafts of wood-carving and basket-making, their community efforts of boat-building and fishing, and saw for himself the steep and beautiful hills and valleys that were once the scene of treachery and massacre, and the rocky shore where the famous Bounty met her end. - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25554. $35
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Clune, Frank. The Norfolk Island Story. Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1967. 1st printing. xxv, 308 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. The Norfolk Island story from its discovery by Captain Cook through the 1960's. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf and a bookplate inside front cover. #25555. $30
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Danielsson, Bengt. Med Bounty till Soder havet. Stockholm: Saxon & Lindstroms Forlag, 1962. 1st printing. 256 pages. Folding map. Endpaper illustrations. Translated into English as What Happened on the Bounty. Text in Swedish. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front endpaper. #25545. $20
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Darby, Madge. Who Caused the Mutiny on the 'Bounty'? Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1965. 1st printing. 127 pages. Index. 'The author's diagnosis of Christian's abnormal mental state is on Freudian lines and throws a new and startling light on the whole affair. But no less striking is her identification of the Third Man - the man who, taking advantage of Christian's instability, directed the mutiny from behind the scenes and later played a ruthless part in the bloodshed on Pitcairn Island.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25546. $30
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Dugan, James. The Great Mutiny. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. 511 pages. Index. Bibliography. Map. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Account of the critical 1797 British naval mutiny in Portsmouth and Spithead. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front endpaper. #25536. $7.50
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Evatt, H. V. Rum Rebellion: A Study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps. Victoria, Australia: Lloyd O'Neill, 1971. Reprint. xiv, [3]., 365 pages. Index. Australian Classics. First published in 1938. 'In January 1808, Major Johnston and the officers of the New South Wales Corps, urged on by John Macarthur, made an armed attack on Government House in Sydney, arrested Governor William Bligh, and took control of the Colony.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf; unrelated gift inscription on back of front endpaper. #25547. $12.50
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McKee, Alexander. H.M.S. Bounty. New York: Morrow, 1962. 1st edition. 222 pages. First published in Great Britain in 1961 under the title 'The Truth about the Mutiny on the Bounty'. Jacket subtitle: A true account of the famous mutiny. Good hardcover in good dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on blank front flyleaf. #13117. $7.50
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Murchie, Guy, Jr. The Mutiny of the Bounty and Other Sea Stories. Foreword by Leonard S. Davidow. No place: Spencer Press, 1937. 1st printing. x, 309 pages. Classic Romances of Literature. Other Sea Stories are: Capt. Ronald T. Coffin, 'How Old Wiggins Wore Ship.' Noah Brooks, 'Lost in the Fog.' Leonard Kip, '- Man Has Come.' Allan Cunningham, 'The Haunted Ships.' Frank T. Bullen, 'Idylls of the Sea.' Good hardcover. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25548. $7.50
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Paine, Ralph D. Lost Ships and Lonely Seas. New York: The Century Co., 1921. 412 pages. Illustrations. Chapter VII, 'Four Thousand Miles in an Open Boat,' contains an account of the mutiny on the Bounty. Good pictorial hardcover, slightly worn at top and bottom of spine. Former owner's name stamp on front flyleaf. #13074. $7.50
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Rawson, Geoffrey. Bligh of the 'Bounty.' London: Philip Allan, 1930. 1st printing. 244 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Folding map. Frontispiece. Good hardcover. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf, a former owner's name inside front cover. #25549. $20
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Rawson, Geoffrey. Pandora's Last Voyage. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. 1st American edition. vii, 165 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Disaster at sea, a strange naval court-martial, and the haunting question of justice highlight this true saga of the pursuit of the notorious 'Bounty' and her mutineers. Very good hardcover in slightly worn, frayed and torn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on blank front flyleaf. #13108. $7.50
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Ross, Alan S. C., and A. W. Moverley. The Pitcairnese Language. With contributions by E. Schubert, H. E. and Alaric Maude, E. H. Flint, and A. C. Gimson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. 269 pages. The Language Library, edited by Eric Partridge. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25550. $35
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Rutter, Owen, editor, introduction and notes. The Court-Martial of the 'Bounty' Mutineers. Edinburgh: William Hodge, 1931. 1st printing. 202 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Notable British Trials Series. Spine title: The Trial of 'Bounty' Mutineers. The seven days of sessions of the court-martial of the ten prisoners brought back to England on the 'Pandora.' Transcriptions of the Public Records Office files, with facts on the voyage of Captain Bligh, the mutiny, the open-boat voyage of 3600 miles to Batavia, and the fate of the mutineers. Good hardcover with gilt spine title; covers slightly worn; former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25551. $25
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Shapiro, H. L. (Harry L.). The Heritage of the Bounty: The Story of Pitcairn through Six Generations. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. 318, [2] pages. Bibliography. Photographs. The author visited Pitcairn Island in 1934-1935 with an American Museum of Natural History expedition. Good hardcover; former owner's stamp and signature on front flyleaf. #25552. $7.50
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Snyder, Frank, collector and annotator. Life under Sail: Being a Compilation of the Adventures, Horrors, Hardships, Delights, and Recreations of Life under Sail. Foreword by Edouard A. Stackpole. New York: Macmillan, 1964. 1st printing. xxxv, 474 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper illustrations. Includes the following Bounty accounts: Peter Heywood, 'Midshipman Peter Heywood's Description;' and William Bligh, 'Bligh's Own Account of the Trouble'. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25558. $7.50
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Spence, S. A. Captain Wm. Bligh, R.N., 1754-1817 & Where to Find Him: Being a Catalogue of Works Wherein Reference is Contained to This Remarkable Seaman. London: Printed by the Author, 1970. One of 75 copies printed. 4to (large book). 41 pages. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Many of the bibliographic entries have a ballpoint or pencil checkmark. #25673. $35
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Weate, Philip, and Caroline Graham. Captain William Bligh: An Illustrated History. Dee Why West, Australia: Paul Hamlyn, 1972. 1st printing. 4to (medium-large book). 159, [1] pages. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0600070603. #25557. $7.50
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Wilkinson, C. S. The Wake of the Bounty. London: Cassell & Company, 1953. 1st printing. xii, 200 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Subtitle: 'How a Ship Having Passed the Line was Driven by Storms to the Cold Country towards the South Pole; and How from Thence She Made Her Course to the Tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean: And of the Strange Things that Befell: And in What Manner the Ancyent marinere Came Back to His Own Country.' - Quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner.' Very good hardcover; former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25553. $50
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