RUTTER, Owen. Turbulent Journey: A Life of William Bligh, Vice Admiral of the Blue. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s pale blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the vivid dust jacket designed by Dorothea Braby. Frontispiece, all plates present. A very good copy, the cloth presumably a variant binding, clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some light spotting and toning to endpapers, small bookplate of the military author, Maurice Allward, to front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) with pencil correction. Rubbed and bumped at most corners, spine tips, with a little loss and toning with a few tape repairs to verso, but the jacket uncommon. A presentable copy.
A scarce volume by the historian and travel writer, Owen Rutter, especially in dust jacket. By the mid-30s, Rutter’s extensive travels across much of the world afforded him a mastery of naval history, fact and fiction. He wrote several volumes on the infamous mutiny on HMS Bounty—its mutineers, their voyages, the court martial, and of course the ship itself. This volume is yet another extension of his work, carefully considering William Bligh, the captain of the Bounty and Vice Admiral of the Blue. Of at least equal interest to the collector is the marvellous dust jacket, designed by Dorothea Braby, whose pairing with the author here is not coincidence; Rutter was at the time a partner in the Golden Cockerel Press, the fine press with whom Braby was a regular artistic contributor. Scarce in the jacket.
RUTTER, Owen. Turbulent Journey: A Life of William Bligh, Vice Admiral of the Blue. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s pale blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the vivid dust jacket designed by Dorothea Braby. Frontispiece, all plates present. A very good copy, the cloth presumably a variant binding, clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some light spotting and toning to endpapers, small bookplate of the military author, Maurice Allward, to front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) with pencil correction. Rubbed and bumped at most corners, spine tips, with a little loss and toning with a few tape repairs to verso, but the jacket uncommon. A presentable copy.
A scarce volume by the historian and travel writer, Owen Rutter, especially in dust jacket. By the mid-30s, Rutter’s extensive travels across much of the world afforded him a mastery of naval history, fact and fiction. He wrote several volumes on the infamous mutiny on HMS Bounty—its mutineers, their voyages, the court martial, and of course the ship itself. This volume is yet another extension of his work, carefully considering William Bligh, the captain of the Bounty and Vice Admiral of the Blue. Of at least equal interest to the collector is the marvellous dust jacket, designed by Dorothea Braby, whose pairing with the author here is not coincidence; Rutter was at the time a partner in the Golden Cockerel Press, the fine press with whom Braby was a regular artistic contributor. Scarce in the jacket.
