The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn’s Island.

NORDHOFF, Charles and James Norman Hall.

$5,000.00

Item Number: 145233

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932-34.

First editions of all three volumes of The Bounty Trilogy, based on the historical event of 1789 and adapted into the award-winning 1962 film starring Marlon Brando. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copies, each volume inscribed by James Norman Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty is inscribed by James Norman Hall on the half-title page, “For Charley + Theodora with warm regards James H. Hall.” Men Against the Sea is inscribed on the second half-title page, “For Charley Codman from his friend James N. Hall. Pitcairn’s Island is inscribed on the half-title page, “For Theodora Codman with warm regards James N. Hall.” The recipients, American writers Charles R. and Theodora Larocque Codman notably owned an extensive collection of Gershwin materials now housed at University of Wisconsin Madison. Mutiny on the Bounty is very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Henry C. Pitz. Men Against the Sea is very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alister Macdonald. Pitcairn’s Island is very good in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Henry C. Pitz. Rare and desirable signed by Hall.

"A model of meticulous research, realistic plotting and dialogue and romantic painterly description," Nordhoff and Hall's Mutiny On The Bounty was made into the MGM film of the same name in 1962"(ANB). Starring Marlon Brando and Richard Harris, the film enjoyed enormous popular and critical success and earned high praise for the "sheer magnitude of this enactment of on of the most famous mutinies" (New York Times). The first widescreen motion picture ever produced, Mutiny On The Bounty won numerous awards including seven Oscar nominations.