Author: Pyle, Howard (author and artist); Johnson, Merle (compiler)
Title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Fiction, Fact and Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main
Description: New York, Harper and Brothers, 1921. Hard Cover. Fourteenth printing. L-E code on copyright page. Illustrated paper covered boards with a black cloth spine. Folio. 247 pp. Color and black and white illustrated plates throughout, all present as called for. A collection of tales, interweaving historical information, on various pirates and other notorious figures in the Spanish Main (Caribbean). Includes chapters on Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and others. FAIR condition. Slightly ex-library with a stamp on the inside front cover, blindstamp on the title page and JP written on the spine. Moderate toning, scuffing and fading to the covers, with moderate soiling, spotting and some staining. Several small pinholes and small scrapes to the covers. Corners very worn. Lengthy split along the upper rear hinge, with loss of cloth. Some toning to the paper in the interior. Fair .

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