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Rare and modern books

Pyle

HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PIRATES; Fiction, Fact and Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, compiled by Merle Johnson

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921

935.00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1921
Place of printing
New York
Author
Pyle
Publishers
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Edition
FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE, AND A HANDSOME AND CLEAN COPY OF
First edition
Yes

Description

First Edition, early issue with K-V. Profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle, the illustration include 36 full-page tipped-in plates, of which 12 are in stunning color, 2 additional tipped in colour plates set within the text and many other wonderful illustrations and decorative initials throughout. Folio, publisher's original quarter black cloth and beige boards, the spine gilt-lettered, the upper cover lettered in black and with the famous pictorial paste-down of the pirate in colours, original dustjacket front cover with additional tipped-on colourplate and rear cover provided in a sleeve. xviii, 247 pp. A very fine and very handsome copy, the gilt work on the spine panel still very bright, the covers, hinges and text-block all in fine order, the plates bright and clean.
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