Sea & Nautical Fiction and Stories of the Sea

This list includes stories relating to the mutiny on the Bounty and Captain William Bligh. For nonfiction accounts, please click Mutiny on the Bounty

Bullen, Frank T. A Bounty Boy: Being Some Adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an Unpremeditated Trip Round the World. London: Marshall Brothers Ltd., 1909. 1st printing. 361 pages. Includes a chapter devoted to an offshore whale hunt. Smith & Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, 358. 'I have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom I have the highest admiration, the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, who I maintain are a standing proof of the miraculous power of the Gospel in the regeneration of mankind when unhindered by sacerdotal interference.' - Author's Preface. Good hardcover, with some foxing; former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25538. $20
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Dingle, A. Edward. By Captain Dingle (Sinbad, pseudonym). Spin a Yarn Sailor. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935. 368 pages. Smith & Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, no. 657. Good hardcover, edges slightly worn. #22691. $45
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Hall, James Norman. The Tale of a Shipwreck. Illustrations by W. Alister MacDonald. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 1st printing. 164 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Smith and Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, 1018. Good hardcover with title label on spine and front cover. Newspaper burn spot on front flyleaf. #23127. $12.50
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Merle, Robert. The Island. Translated from the French by Humphrey Hare. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964. 2d printing. 484 pages. First published in France under the title 'L'Ile'. 'The author has taken the idea of the mutiny on the Bounty as his initial inspiration, but that is only a starting point from which he has developed a totally fictional story with original characters.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25540. $25
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O'Brian, Patrick. The Yellow Admiral. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. 1st edition, 1st printing. 262 pages. Frontispiece. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0393040445. #24933. $25
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Sperry, Armstrong, author and illustrator. All Sails Set: A Romance of the 'Flying Cloud'. Introduction by William McFee. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1935. 1st printing. xvi, 175 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Glossary. Endpaper illustrations. Smith & Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, 2228. Good hardcover in slightly torn and chipped dust jacket. #25331. $15
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Wilson, Erle. Adams of the Bounty. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. 2d printing. 316 pages. First published in 1958. Smith & Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, 2477. Very good hardcover. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25541. $7.50
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