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Lot 164
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. NORDHOFF, Charles (18878-1947). -- HALL, James Norman (1887-1951). Mutiny on the Bounty. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932.
8vo. 20th-century blue crushed levant gilt, upper cover with central illustration of a ship in white, red and green morocco onlay, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of the H.M.S. Bounty and a ship of mutineers at sea; quarter morocco gilt slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of the first work in the Bounty Trilogy, based on the 1787 mutiny in Tahiti and later made into the 1962 film starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris.