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.