The Collected Works of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

HALL, Norman James and Charles Bernard Nordhoff.

$8,200.00

Item Number: 118065

Boston and New York: Various Publishers, 1918-1942.

Rare first edition set of the works of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, including a first edition of Botany Bay signed by the authors. Octavo, 13 volumes, original cloth. Botany Bay is signed by the authors opposite the copyright page. Doctor Dogbody’s Leg is inscribed by James Norman Hall on a tipped-in note, “For Harry Heinsforster with best wishes from James Norman Hall.” Each volume is near fine to fine in a near fine to fine dust jacket with the exception of High Adventure, Faery Lands of the South Seas, The Pearl Lagoon, and Falcons of France which are without a dust jacket. Each volume is housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase, which were constructed upon publication. An exceptional set.

American writers James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff are best known for the Bounty Trilogy, which includes: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). The authors met in 1919 when they were asked to collaborate on a history of the Lafayette Flying Corps, and were soon commissioned by Harper's Magazine to write travel articles set in the South Pacific. They travelled together to Tahiti for research and inspiration, where Nordhoff remained for twenty years, and Hall for life.