Owen Rutter (Introduction by). The Voyage Of The Bounty's Launch As Related In William Bligh's Despatch To The Admirality and The Journal of John Fryer [Prospectus]. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1934.

Price: US$44.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 4pp folio size prospectus promoting publication of William Bligh's voyage and mutiny on The Bounty and the Journal of Master John Fryer. This prospectus contains an illustrated Specimen Page with two wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Rear cover page contains details of five Other Spring Books. Publishers' address is printed as 10 Staple Inn, London. Previously folded in half the prospectus in now laid flat. Few very light spots on rear cover. Crease to tail of spine corner. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight of this prospectus.

Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom

Bligh, William. THE VOYAGE OF THE BOUNTY'S LAUNCH as related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1934.

Price: US$1328.88 + shipping

Description: With an Introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Pp. 86+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, text illustrations (1 full page), colophon decoration; narrow roy. 4to; red & white 'sail-type' canvas, spine lettered in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1934. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies on Arnold all-rag paper. Chanticleer 95. *Originally from the library of Australian bibliophile H. B. Muir, with a small gift card from his wife, Marcie Muir ('To H. From M. with love') loosely inserted. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown. The first of the Golden Cockerel 'Sea Log' series in this binding style, using two different cloths to form a pattern.

Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia