Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Nordhoff, Charles; Hall, James Norman. Botany Bay. Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1941.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Textblock very clean and tight, binding lightly edge and corner worn and rubbed; Lacks dust jacket; 374p. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1941.
Price: US$11.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER 1941. TEXT UNMARKED, SOME SPOTTING TO EDGES.
Seller: Karl Theis, Torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles, and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 374 pages, map end papers; blue cloth/silver ship front cover. Book is in very good+ condition and does not have a dust jacket
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, James. Botany Bay. Little Brown & Co., 1941.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1941. Hardcover (approx 5.75 x 8.5 inches (14.5 x 21.5 cm)), 374 pages. Copyright page reads "Published November 1941, Reprinted November 1941 (three times)". Ex-Library copy. Book and dust jacket (dj) are in Poor to Fair condition. Green, decorative boards. Bumped and rubbed. Rolled, chipped, torn at head/foot of spine. Considerable soiling/staining on boards. Cracked spine. Binding shaken. Internal library markings. Stamps, barcode and check-out sheet on pastedowns/endpapers. Library stamps also on copyright page (also an ink mark) and page edges. The dj is not price-clipped, shows original price of $2.50. Browning/foxing. Bumped & chipped, with creases. Jacket drawing by N.C. Wyeth. The dust jacket is protected in an archival (removable) book jacket cover. Weight: 595g.
Seller: E. Manning Books, Robertsdale, AL, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles & James Norman Hall. BOTANY BAY. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1941.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1941, 374p, blue cloth w/ silver design & lettering, bottom corners lightly bumped, light shelfwear to cover, no dj, contents clean & unmarked.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles & James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Boston Little Brown 1941., 1941.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: G. Historical fictional account of convict ships sent from Great Britain to Australia in 1700 & 1800s. Binding edges tanned. Illustrated by Map on endpapers. 1st ed.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and hall, James Norman. Botany Bay. Little, brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First Edition. November 1941, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA, 1941. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. NO Dust Jacket . Blue cloth covered boards, design of ship sailing on seas stamped in silver on the front board. Spine lettering in silver. Spine lightly faded, but silver lettering bright. Clean, unmarked, mapped endpapers and 374 pages are tightly bound. Square tight spine. Rose tinted top edge of pages, pages bright with dark print. A very nice reading copy. Synopsis: A novel of the convict ships sent to what is now called Australia to settle the penal colony
Seller: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Blue cloth decorated with silver ship and titles. Map endpapers. 374 pp. Fading to spine and folding to spine cloth, beginings of wear top and bottom. Very light foxing to endpapers. Very good condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1941.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing, hardcover. A lightly used tight near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket (price clipped spine slightly darkened) which is now protected in an archival cover.
Seller: Books Again, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall. BOTANY BAY. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1941.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing, November 1941, same month as the first. 8vo in cloth with dust jacket. 374 pp. VG/G. Edge wear and chipping to dust jacket; original $2.50 price intact on flap. Light age-toning to spine and edges of boards. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Atlantic Little Brown, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First edition. Green cloth with titles and cover decoration of sailing ship with men nearby in rowboat stamped in silver. Octavo. 374 pages. Endpaper maps.Previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, small price sticker from Meyer and Frank Department store on rear endpaper. Text clean, no marks, etc. with light even toning to supple pages. In complete dust jacket with original publisher's $2.50 price on inside flap. Jacket has some wear at front fold, light stain to rear panel and general toning. Nice color illustration by Wyeth to dust jacket. [see photo]. A very good copy in a near very good dust jacket in a mylar protector. Note: this is not a book club edition.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 374p octavo a very good tight copy in a very good dust jacket with closed tear on the foredge, spine darkened, tiny black spot at the front corner. Stated First edition bookplate
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
NORDHOFF Charles and James Norman HALL.. Botany Bay.. , 1941.
Price: US$33.04 + shipping
Description: Boston: Little Brown 1941. 8vo.Or.illust.cloth. viii374pp. With title-vign. and endpaper maps. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman. BOTANY BAY. Little, Brown, BOSTON, 1941.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Stirring nautical fiction by the authors of "Mutiny on The Bounty". Book is a stated first edition, light wear on the outside (boards light blue with silver gilt lettering and illustration) and crisp and clean on the inside, under a bright, flawless facsimile of a marvelous N.C. Wyeth dust jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles; Hall, James Norman. Botany Bay. Little, Brown, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Fine copy in publisher's turquoise cloth with illustration in silver, red topstain. Dust jacket, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, has some chipping, short tears, light soiling, but still presents well. Original $2.50 price present on jacket flap. Historical fiction about an English convict's voyage to an Australian penal colony, life in the colony, escape back to England, and eventual pardon.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 374 numbered pages. First Edition. Original blue cloth, silver illustration and design on front board, silver lettering and design to spine, endpaper maps. N.C. Wyeth jacket design. A quite collectible first printing. Bright, clean, tight, and square text block, no marks of any kind. Corners sharp. Fore-edges of the leaves are rough-cut, top edge stained maroon as issued. Unclipped ($2.50) DJ in clear archival protector. DJ shows minimal chipping to top of rear panel. Shipped in a sturdy cardboard box for added protection.
Seller: McKenzie Company Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles; James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$38.36 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A nice copy of the first edition, first printing. Text is tight and clean. Lettering and decoration to front board and spine are bright and unflaked. Appears unread or barely so. Dark top stain with no spotting. In a Near Fine -/Very Good + bright dust jacket (in mylar) w/shallow chipping to spine ends, mild soiling to rear panel. No previous owners' names. No remainder mark or spray. Price Clipped. Not ex-lib. Not a Book Club Edition. This is a nice copy at a very good price. Compare and see. Photos sent upon request. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices
Seller: Novel Ending Books, Franklin, TN, U.S.A.
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Stated first edition, 1941. Historical fiction set in the penal colony of Australia. Blue pictorial cloth, map endpapers, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with minimal edgewear, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with a small name stamp on the front free endpaper and half-title, no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.50] and is also very good with some light edgewear, minor age-toning, a couple of smudges, no chips or tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very clean copy in a jacket with some minor fraying to the head and heel of the spine panel. A much better than average copy. Jacket illustration by N C Wyeth.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
NORDHOFF, Charles & HALL, James Norman.. Botany bay.. Little, Brown & Co.,, Boston:, 1941.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. viii, 374 pp. Maps on endpapers. Blue cloth, illustrated & lettered in silver (minor dustsoiling to fore-edges, light shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by N.C. Wyeth (minor edgewear, rubbing, minor soiling), still NF/VG- copy. First edition, stated, of this historical novel set against the backdrop of the first convict ships to Australia.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little Brown, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. "Published November 1941" on copyright page. Very good copy about the 18th Century Australian penal colony of England. 8vo. Sharp looking light blue cloth stamped in silver. Top page edges stained silver. Pictorial endpapers. Spine a little darker. Pictorial dust jacket by Andrew Wyeth. Clean. Tight. Jacket has a 1" and 3" piece at top and bottom of spine missing, otherwise in very good condition. $2.50 dust jacket price. Very good/ Fair.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. BOTANY BAY. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. Historical novel about the Australian penal colony. Filmed in 1953 with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and corner tips, rubbing to front flap fold, long closed tear to upper right rear panel with sliver chip at upper left spine fold, age darkening to rear panel. (24737)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
NORDHOFF, CHARLES and JAMES NORMAN HALL.. Botany Bay. Boston: Little, Brown, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a piece of tape inside the spine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
NORDHOFF, CHARLES & JAMES NORMAN HALL. BOTANY BAY. ATLANTIC, LITTLE BROWN, BOSTON, MA, 1941.
Price: US$89.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: small chip & closed tear to an unclipped n.c. wyeth dj. owner's name to half title page.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
NORDHOFF, CHARLES and HALL, JAMES NORMAN. Botany Bay. Little, Brown, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Illustrated endpapers. Cover art by N. C. Wyeth. The jacket shows some minor rubbing and chips to both spine ends and is price-clipped. Very Good / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman. BOTANY BAY. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 374 pages in very good condition; edges and endpapers yellowed and a little foxed. Mapped endpapers. Blue hardcovers with gilt titles and illustration. Spine and top edges darkened, small wrinkle on the top, upper edge. Corners not bumped. Illustrated DJ with black titles. Spine darkened, small chips on corners, edges, head/tail of spine. Not price clipped. GOOD+/GOOD-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
NORDHOFF, Charles and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a very good or better, slightly spine-toned, internally tape repaired dustwrapper designed by N.C. Wyeth. A better than usual copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. BOTANY BAY. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. Historical novel about the Australian penal colony. Filmed in 1953 with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. A little darkening along upper edge, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear to corner tips and a tiny tear to upper front panel. (24736)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles, and Hall, James Norman. Botany Bay. Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$299.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [2], viii, 374 p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with silver-stamped spine title and cover illustration. Dust jacket with color illustration by N.C. Wyeth. Map on endpapers. Top page edges red. Stated First Edition. Signed by both authors. The story of Hugh Tallant, highwayman, and the infamous penal colony established in Australia in 1788. Book is in Very Good Condition: spine slightly sunned; 1/2-cm. split in cloth at head of spine; fore-edges slightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed; creasing at edges; chipping at ends of spine; separated for 5 cm. from tail along front joint; old repairs at ends of spine on inside of dust jacket; spine is sunned; front section bright; not price-clipped.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, James Norman. Botany Bay. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1941.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published in 1941 by Little Brown and Company. But for a short Christmas inscription to the half title, a fine example of the book. Dust jacket equally nice, near fine ( price clipped ) with a single short tear to the top edge pf the rear panel. This copy is signed by both Nordhoff and Hall.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.