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Very-nice condition - Stated First Edition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $12.50 - Dustcover has tearing - especially on back - Olive-green boards with black spine and gold lettering (gilt) - Illustrated throughout - includes color frontispiece portrait of Boswell by George Willison Rome - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 607 pages

A Myth and Some Facts. Cover marked..Hardback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition,no dust jacket,93pages. 350g ISBN:

First Edition 44pp. Written as a Presidential Address for the Elizabethan Club of Yale University, which was read to the club on May 4th, 1932. Mary Bryant was a Cornish convict sent to Australia, who became the first successful escapee from the fledging Australian penal colony. Born Mary Braund in Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom, she was sent as a prisoner with the First Fleet to Australia aboard the Charlotte after being arrested for highway robbery of a silk bonnet, food, and a few coins. She fled to the early colony of Port Jackson with her husband William Bryant, her two children and other male convicts. When they arrived by ship in Timor, which was then Dutch, they claimed to be shipwreck survivors. They were later proven by Dutch officials to be British convicts. To avoid an international incident they were sent back to Britain to stand trial. During the voyage back her family perished. She expected to be hanged, however due to a public outcry and publicity by writer James Boswell she was pardoned. (With thanks to Wikipedia). With a map detailing the routes sailed by Mary Bryant, Captain Edwards and Captain Bligh and two illustrations. Jacket is foxed and chipped and endpapers are browned. Price clipped.

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Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 5/9/2003 8/16/2004 12:50:02 PM 1

8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall Tight Clean copy ! Board tips bumped and worn. 370 pages. 8455

1st Printing. 8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall Now first published from the original manuscript. Nice Tight Clean copy ! 370 pages. 9196

Cloth, dj, F/G+. xiv+370pp, endpaper maps, b/w frontis, 2 plates, index, nice copy in a slightly edge frayed & rubbed dustjacket that has a small closed tear.

Cloth, dj, VG/G+. xxvi+353pp, 9 b/w plates, endpaper maps, index, a nice copy in a good dustjacket which is rubbed & chipped along the edges with a little loss.