Description:
T Fisher Unwin Limited, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. First Edition. 152 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.
The Log of the Bounty - Being Lieutenant William Bligh's Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, to Take the Breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies by Rutter, Owen (Ed) - 1937
by Rutter, Owen (Ed)
The Log of the Bounty - Being Lieutenant William Bligh's Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, to Take the Breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies
by Rutter, Owen (Ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Two volumes complete - Volume One - 434pp and Volume Two - 258pp, [2]. Original three colour cloth, title in gilt to spine. Slightly rubbed to extremities, and covers, with a couple of very light scores, colours very slightly faded. Internally a hint of foxing to page edges, otherwise bright and clean. One of three hundred sets, this one being number one hundred and thirty-eight. "The log contains many important passages which do not appear in either of Bligh's previously published books, as well as information patiently collected on the social life of the Tahitians" (Hill). Hill 141, Pertelote 117. First Thus. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as Issued). Illus. by Lamb, Lynton. Folio. Limited Edition.
- Bookseller Temple Rare Books (GB)
- Illustrator Lamb, Lynton
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition No Jacket (as Issued)
- Edition First Thus
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher The Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1937
- Keywords Noisbn, Bligh, Bounty, Mutiny, Naval, Private Press, Ebay
- Size Folio