Buy this book on-line BOYNE**, JOHN: : Mutiny on the Bounty - A NovelLONDON.DOUBLEDAY/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS,2008. ISBN 9780385611664.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE-./NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj,1st edn. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with glossy,embossed red lettered title,white-lettered author name and other white lettering to front panel,colour thumbnail photograph illustration from front photograph to spine/backstrip also with similarly repeated coloured lettering as the front,rear panel with critics' red+white lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present,minimal bumping with reciprocal creases to head+foot of spine/ backstrip - book with a slight lean.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate navy blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,15-494pp [paginated] includes pts I-V comprising 4,19,17, Pt IV - 28 April to 14 June 1789,and 4 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] half=title+ title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,2 double-page b/w maps - Voyage of Bounty and Bligh's voyage after the mutiny back to England together to same map,the 2nd map with Voyage of Bounty's launch to Timor.B/w line headpiece illustration to individual Pts separator pages and to the rear,acknowledgements.
Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and even internally, the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age.It is only the minor exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall. Despite them,it really is an acceptable acceptable copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
23 December 1787,Portsmouth.
A fourteen-year-old boy,John Jacob Turnstile, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission.The boy who was expected to serve as the captain's personal valet has been injured and a replacement must be found immediately.The deal is truck and Turnstile finds himself on board, meeting the captain,just as the ship sets sail.
The ship is HMS Bounty,the captain is William Bligh,and their destination is Tahiti.
'Mutiny on the Bounty' is the first novel to explore all the events relating to the Bounty's voyage,from their long journey across the ocean to their advetures on the island of Tahiti and the subsequent forty-eight-day espedition towards Timor.A vivid recreation of the faamous mutiny,the story is packed with humour,high drama and historical detail,while presenting a very different portrait of Captain Bligh and Mr Christian than has ever been shown before.
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