Sea & Nautical Fiction
Stories of the Sea

This list includes stories relating to the mutiny on the Bounty and Captain William Bligh. For nonfiction accounts, please click Mutiny on the Bounty

Bullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World after Sperm Whales. New York: D. Appleton, 1899. Authorized edition. xx, 379 pages. Illustrations. Folding map. Frontispiece. Rudyard Kipling's printed letter of endorsement facing Preface. Front cover illustrations depicts a whale boat being pulled by a harpooned whale. Good pictorial hardcover. Exlibrary: old label on spine, label inside front cover, inked number and blind stamp on title page, label removed from inside rear cover. Covers, edges and spine ends rubbed and worn. #27178. $20
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Dingle, A. Edward. By Captain Dingle (Sinbad, pseudonym). Spin a Yarn Sailor. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935. 368 pages. Smith & Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, no. 657. Good hardcover, edges slightly worn. #22691. $20
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Doubleday, Russell. A Year in a Yawl: A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-Foot Yawl. From the Log of Capt. Ransom. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901? Reprint. 365 pages. Photographs. First published by Doubleday, Page in 1901. A 7000 mile cruise down the Mississippi and up the Atlantic in the yacht Gazelle. Fair pictorial hardcover; bookplate inside front cover; extensive foxing, covers rubbed, edges and spine ends slightly frayed and worn. #28493. $12.50
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Gardiner, Alice Cushing, and Nancy Cabot Osborne. Father's Gone A-Whaling. Illustrations by Erick Berry. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1926. 1st edition. 198 pages. Illustrations. Map of Nantucket Island. Color frontispiece illustration. Pictorial endpapers. Good pictorial hardcover, covers slightly soiled. #27180. $15
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Grant, George H., Capt. The Heels of a Gale. Illustrations by Paul Quinn. Boston: Little, Brown, 1939. 1st ed., Reprinted. x, 259 pages. Illustrations. Dated, with a long personal inscription and signed by the author. First published in 1937. Good hardcover, spine sunned; dust jacket front cover and panel laid in. #27550. $60
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Hall, James Norman. The Tale of a Shipwreck. Illustrations by W. Alister MacDonald. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 1st printing. 164 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Smith and Weller, Sea Fiction Guide, 1018. Good hardcover with title label on spine and front cover; small red owner's stamp on blank front flyleaf. #23127. $7.50
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Merle, Robert. The Island. Translated from the French by Humphrey Hare. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964. 2d printing. 484 pages. First published in France under the title 'L'Ile'. 'The author has taken the idea of the mutiny on the Bounty as his initial inspiration, but that is only a starting point from which he has developed a totally fictional story with original characters.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front flyleaf. #25540. $25
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