A Doctor's Letters from Pitcairn, 1937
Np/nd [ca.2008]: [Robert Parkin Johnson]. Limited Edition. Octavo. Item #031637
No. 136 of 500 privately printed copies. [iv] 182 pages, map, photographs, with an introduction by Mayotta Southworth. Written by a physician who spent six months on Pitcairn caring for the medical and some of the psychological needs of the islanders, this book gets "inside" the Pitcairners' lives in a way no other book has done. Certain to become an expensive, rare book because of its limited printing. These letters from Dr. Southworth to his family, gathered into a book are an intimate, revealing picture of life on Pitcairn in a most interesting and sometimes graphic way. Inscribed by Alice Southworth and also Ann S. McFarland Southworth both to a noted collector of the Pitcairn saga. A fine bright copy bound in dark green stiff paper wraps lettered in black, spine lettering black.
Price: $65.00