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Price: US$84.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16mo, 6 1/4" tall, 6 ads pages, 2 frontispiece steel engravings, + 303 pages, printed beige cloth. A good copy only, back strip missing, covers worn through at all edges with chipping, listing of "Harper's Family Library volumes already published" on the back cover is present but cloth chipped into text on the first six titles, internal binding sturdy, paper lightly yellowed but moderately foxed throughout, with previous owners' notations on the front and back endpapers. Without dust jacket.Harper's Family Library No. XXXI: The Eventful History of the Mutiny of the Bounty; A Description of Pitcairn's Island and the Inhabitants with an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers. "Harper's Stereotype Edition" Complete in one volume
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16mo hardcover volume in original printed paper boards. Spine complete has one crack across center and hinge edges are split. Text on covers very readable. End papers not split one old 1858 pencil name and some foxing to them. Several ad pages in front and the 2 called for plates are in front of the title page. 303 pages are tight and quite clean with almost no foxing.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xii, [13]-303pp, 2 illustration plates. Original brown cloth boards with black print [rubbed, joints split but holding, some spine lettering rubbed]. Text block partly loosened, light scattered foxing. Signature at head of front board reads, "Wash. Hood| Lieut. U.S. Army." Good+. The first American printing of this well-known story. Washington Hood [1808-1840], to whom this book once belonged, was a topographical engineer for the U.S. Army. He became a cadet at the Military Academy in 1823, and was its 500th graduate. He was promoted into the Army in 1827 and spent the majority of his short life working as a civil and topographical engineer. He worked with Robert E. Lee in 1835 to determine the boundary line between Ohio and the Michigan Territory, and worked under J.J. Abert in 1838 on the map delineating the northern border of the Oregon Territory [later bound with the Cushing Report]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Sabin 3663.
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.