Pitcairn Island
first edition
1967 · Cleveland
by SILVERMAN, DAVID
Cleveland: The World Publishing Co, 1967. First Edition. Illustrated. Foreword by Luis Marden. Near fine copy with a touch of dust soiling to the cloth at the spine in a near fine bright dust jacket with some very minor edge wear and a bit of darkening to the rear panel. A comprehensive history of the South Pacific island, Pitcairn Island, which is reknown for its colonization by the mutineers of the British ship, the H.M.S. Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian against the leadership of Captain Bligh in 1790, and which is also part of literary history from the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall ‘Bounty’ trilogy. Laid in is a two-page article dated 3/17/79 by Jill Morgan: “Mister Christian’s Island.” (Inventory #: 16208E)