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Pyle, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers, 1921.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. Former Library Book. 247 pages. Rebound edition. Text is clean and unlined, pages are toned with some light staining. B/W illustrations throughout. Usual library markings and stamps. Green board with white lettering on the spine. Cover is bumped on the corners and lightly rubbed. Binding and hinges are firm.
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers, 1921.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Later printing with code I-W on copyright page. Heavy age-related wear, rubbing and handling to boards. Some faint stains and discoloration to boards. A few small holes near spine caused by insects. Bookplate on fep. Tape on rear end paper. Toned pages. Binding solid and text clean. Extra postage required for international orders.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Pyle's, Howard. Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York & London, 1921.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle: Compiled by Merle Johnson. Buen estado. Encuadernación de tapa dura. Ilustracioens a color y blanco y negro fuera de texto y a plena hoja. Inscripción manuscrita en segunda hoja en blanco. Manchas amarillentas. Lomo y bordes desgastados.Sello de biblioteca en la portada y pág. siguiente. 17,5 23,5
Seller: El Galeón-Roberto Cataldo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Howard Pyle & Johnson, Merle. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1921.
Price: US$68.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1926 (H-A) copyright page Hardcover The black cover has a wonderful paper paste down of a pirate on board a ship; the title is in black, the spine had the title in gilt. The corners are bumped and worn as is the top and bottom of the spine, the spine is light struck; the covers and paste down have a small bit of scratching. The endpapers are aged and the first free endpaper has a black and white drawing of a Spaniard. The half title has a black and white drawing of a pirate; the colored frontispiece is of a small sail boat attacking a galleon. The interior aged but is bright; there are 12 other pictures some in color and some in black and white, the pictures on page 154 and 196 have started to come unglued at the top, but holding. 209pp.
Seller: Weatherby Books, West Pawlet, VT, U.S.A.
Howard Pyle. The Book of Pirates. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York (1921), 1921.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Very good brown boards with color paste down on front cover. Minor edge wear. Profusely illustrated This a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.
Seller: Valley Books, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.
Howard Pyle. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brother Publishers, New York, 1921.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: E-A code on copyright page May 1926. Measuring approximately 9.5" x 7.25" with 208 numbered pages. This book is in good minus condition. Moderate bumping and sunning to spine. Minor chipping to bottom edge of spine. Moderate scuffing to both boards. Minor cracking to middle of binding. At least two plate loose and worn. "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main" by Howard Pyle is a fascinating and entertaining adventure book that was written to teach readers about the history of pirates. Complete with detailed illustrations, the book was and continues to be a fascinating and fun romp for readers of all ages who have found themselves intrigued by life at sea. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O4-11).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: some penciling on front end paper, pages yellowing, no markings, edges of cover bumped, faded gilt on spine, bottom corner of spine taring, numerous illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1921 EDITION: 247
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Merle Johnson. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers,, New York:, 1921.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+ in 1/2 black cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stampings on the spine and with an illustrated paper label on the front board. The gilt text on the spine is clear and bright, but there are what appear to be five narrow white paint stains on the backstrip. A quarto of 12 1 /8 by 9 inches with the paint stains noted above, with a gift inscription on the first free end page and several scratches on the paper label on the front board. Without its issued dust jacket. 247 pages of text and with 36 black and white and color plate illustrations by Howard Pyle together with numerous sketches within the text. Counting the frontispiece there are 12 color plates (two of which are small 3" x 5"). The subtitle reads: "Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle: Compiled by Merle Johnson." A handsome copy in very collectable condition with all plates present and in very nice shape.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Howard Pyle. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers, 1921.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Pictorial pastedown of Pirate on front board. Later printing, publisher's code K-V for October, 1921. Hinges weak. Marginal dampstain. Foxing throughout. Inscription on fep. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover book bound in the publisher's original cloth with a pictorial color onlay affixed to the front cover. 24 cm. 209 pages. Contains striking color and black-and-white illustrations by Howard Pyle throughout. The book is in near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Light edge wear/bumping, rubbing to the covers. A lovely copy. Early 1928 reprint (code 'E-C' on copyright page.
Seller: JNBookseller, Palm Harbor, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: 31 x 23 cm Quarto. 247pp. Black boards with illustrated pastedown in dust jacket. 35 full page plates, some color, and additional in-text illustrations. Early Reprint with code "K-E" on copyright page, indicating October 1930 publication date. Dust jacket is present but quite worn with several large pieces out, missing front flap, and some water staining. Still uncommon to have any sort of jacket. Scuffing to edges of the front cover.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: CONDITION: Good; collector's plate on fixed endpaper, backstrip torn 1.5" at spine foot, corners worn on tips, loosening, even soil to boards, spine gilt bright, paste on plate scratched, pages clean but not flat. Juvenile hardback tall. Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: from the Writing and Pictures of Howard Pyle. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /HP, illustrator.
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
Johnson, Merle. HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PIRATES. Harper & Brothers, NEW YORK, 1921.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: The true first edition of this sought-after book, containing some of Golden Age Illustrator Howard Pyle's most renowned work. Book has rubbed leather corners and tape repair to the spine, contents clean and unmarked. With date code K-V (October, 1921) on copyright page. A sturdy, strong, clean copy containing all the color and black and white plates.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$151.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 246 pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1921.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original quarter gilt cloth with boards, pictorial onlay. First edition (same date) with d-y code (later printing). Minor wear to spine ends/points, slight rubbing. Firm binding. PO name of Delmer L. Daves, noted screenwriter/director. Illustrated. ; quarto; 248 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book Of Pirates. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PYLE, Howard[247] pp.Harper & Brothers Publishers192112 1/4" x 9 1/4"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main" by Howard Pyle is an illustrated romp of a history book that was written to teach children about the history of pirates. Pirates and high-seas adventures have always fascinated readers and this book brings the history of the adventures of the Spanish buccaneers to readers all over the world.*extensive dampstaining across bottom pages, condition noted*
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Howard Pyle. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper and Bros, 1921.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Folio. 310mm x 240mm. 246pp. Paper-covered boards with a colour illustration laid to the front board, cloth spine with gilt titles. No inscriptions. or blemishes a really excellent bright tight copy. The front endpaper (with illustration) has a tanning shadow from the jacket, which is present but in two pieces, lacking the spine and housed in a separate sleeve. Illustrated in b/w and colour .In his introduction, Merle Johnson acknowledges the influence of Howard Pyle [1853-1911] on American illustrators. An author too, Pyle wrote works of historical fiction for young people. His popular representations of Pirates played a formative role in our modern conception of these historical characters. His work depicting pirates is here collected for the first time.
Seller: Love Rare Books, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Compiled by Merle Johnson, 8 3/'4" x 12 1/8", 4to, 1930 printing. "K-E" on copyright page - Oct. 1930. Pyle captures the very essence of pirate lore. Tan boards and black cloth. Pictorial label on front cover. Illustrated with 23 full page plates on slickpa per of paintings by Pyle - seven of which are in color. In addition, there are many black and white drawings by Pyle throughout, several of which are tipped in. Exquisitely composed. Rubbed slightly at extreme bottom of spine. Dust jacket with some small losses at several corners and at extreme base of spine. Fine/ Very good.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Cover board is clean / spine ends slightly bumped / spine strip clean / gilt nice / color paste on is clean / bright / Text is clean / bright / tight / all illustrations are clean / bright / includes 3 tip-in, 2 color & 1 b/w / this is a nice solid copy / the DJ picture is cut out and also included / fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the spanish main. VG+ / no DJ / later printing / copyright page letters are K-E /
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Harper date code K-E (October 1930). Quarter black cloth cover with tan paper covered boards and mounted color pictorial is frayed at the corners and several damp stains to back cover but in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. Complete with 36 color & b&w plates, which are clean and bright. ; 246 pages
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Howard Pyle. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Brothers, 1921.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main" by Pyle, Howard; Johnson, Merle (compiler). Harper & Brothers, 1921 first American edition, L-E fourteenth printing. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Good condition, with gift insciption on front endpaper. With very good original dust jacket with minor wear.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Compiled by Merle Johnson. xviii, 247 pp. Pictured by Howard Pyle in black and white and color. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket and publisher's two-part box with printed paper label. Early edition; E-A on the copyright page. Bookplate tipped onto illustrated front free endpaper (slightly tanned except underneath the bookplate); a near fine, unworn copy in a naer fine jacket. 5" loss to one side of the box, which otherwise shows only light wear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Front panel of dustjacket has separated from the spine seam, but butts up exactly; there are also two additional closed tears to that panel - see image. ; Book is in near pristine condition - one slightly bumped corner. Scarce copy in this condition, early edition of October, 1921, and with a dustjacket. We will add a Mylar protective sleeve to the jacket, or pack it along with the book - your choice. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 246 pages
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome copy. Large quarto. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Tear on dj. xviii, 247 pp. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Harper & Bros, New York, 1921.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ptg. (Harper code K-V), folio, quarter black cloth over boards with mounted color plate to front board, 248pp. 36 full color plates of Pyle's most iconic work. A handsome copy with light shelfwear to board edges, bright spine gilt, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Johnson, Merle.. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates.. London; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921., 1921.
Price: US$615.97 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION with the copyright code "D-V". Small folio, pp. [xviii], 246, [2]. Illustrated with 36 full page plates of which 12 are in colour, three tipped-in vignettes as called for. Bound in the original quarter black cloth with fawn boards, lettered in black with colour illustration pasted to upper board, gilt titles and ornament to spine. Lightly sunned to upper spine tip, boards remarkably clean with crisp and vibrant illustration. Contents tight, secure, square, clean and free of inscriptions and annotations. Dust-jacket has minor loss to spine tips and some closed tears and larger patches some loss to lower panel. The book that gave us the flamboyant image of pirates that we have today, directly influencing Captain Jack Sparrow's costume amongst others. David Cordingly names this book as one of the works that "no doubt helped to fix the image in people's minds" of the black flag with the white skull and crossbones. Howard Pyle's most sought-after work, compiled by his publishers posthumously in honour of the artist. Heavyweight item so additional postage costs might be requested for overseas buyers.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$874.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout by Howard Pyle. 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. xviii, 247 pp. A handsome copy, the gilt work on the spine panel still bright, the covers, hinges and text-block all in good order, the plates bright and clean, some minor bumping at the tips. FIRST EDITION AND A HANDSOME AND CLEAN COPY OF THIS WONDERFUL BOOK, one of Pyle's best and most popular works. "Why is it that the pirate has, and always has had, a certain lurid glamour of the heroical enveloping him round about? Is there, deep under the accumulated debris of culture, a hidden groundwork of the old-time savage? Is there even in these well-regulated times an unsubdued nature in the respectable mental household of every one of us that still kicks against the pricks of law and order? To make my meaning more clear, would not every boy, for instancethat is, every boy of any accountrather be a pirate captain than a Member of Parliament?" (- from the Introduction).
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (the date code indicates that this was printed a month later than copies printed on vellum); publisher's leather; some page spotting; gift inscription; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: The October, 1921 printing. (First was April 1921). Large 4to half black cloth and tan paper-covered boards. Spine lettered in gilt; front cover lettered in black. Color pictorial cover onlay. Illustrated with 12 full-page color and 24 full-page b/w captioned plates as well as b/w pictorial endpapers and chapter headings by Pyle. This copy presented to a young "Pirate" by Willard Morse, Pyle's biographer. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket (price $6.00). The whole preserved in a worn publisher's box which is heavily repaired with tape and is missing a small piece from one flap. A nice survival with an interesting presentation.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY REBOUND IN 1/2 LEATHER WITH MARBLED BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS, SOME LIGHT SPORADIC FOXING. NICELY ILLUSTRATED - COLOR PLATES, 209 PAGES, BOOK MEASURES 9"x7". 101 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE IN GREAT CONDITION.
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1485.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Folio. [12], xi-xvii, [3], 3-246, [6] pp.Tan paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, black lettering and a color pictorial inlay to the front board; top edge stained orange. Color Frontispiece (Pyle's painting "An Attack on a Galleon"), eleven additional color plates, 24 black and white plates, one small tipped in black and white illustration (page 3), two small tipped in color illustrations (pages 232 and 239) and numerous in-text and small decorative illustrations throughout. Price of $5.00 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. ADNB, Elizabeth Hawks, "Pyle, Howard". Over his 35-year career, Pyle carved a reputation for himself as one of America's most significant illustrators. He produced more than 3,000 illustrations for magazines, twenty books, and several articles. Pyle began as a children's book illustrator, and established new standards in American book-making with his designs, with William Morris among one of his numerous fans. Pyle was notably famous for his illustrations about pirates and historical adventure stories. He illustrated books by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells. This book is a compilation of some of Pyle's work related to pirates and vividly demonstrates his style and his influential conception of pirate costume. An attractive example of this wonderfully illustrated book, decidedly uncommon in the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with light wear to the bottom edges of the boards and mild fading to the topstain in a Good only dust jacket with chipping, reverse inexpertly reinforced, and some small areas of discoloration.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Large 4to black cloth lettered in black and gilt and with a color pictorial cover onlay. With a color frontispiece and 35 full-page plates, nine of which are in color, numerous b/w text vignettes and two small mounted color vignettes, all by Pyle. This copy with a FULL-PAGE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY MERLE JOHNSON on the front flyleaves. Interestingly inscribed twice by Johnson, first to Major Drake from Sergeant Johnson in 1921, and second to Mrs. Colonel Drake from Lieutenant Johnson in 1923. A bit of very light foxing to the title page, else a fine copy in a good dust jacket. A unique copy.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
PYLE, Howard (illustrator). Merle JOHNSON (compiler).. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates.. , 1921.
Price: US$3079.84 + shipping
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921. Folio. Original black cloth-backed buff boards lettered in black with a large onlaid pictorial label to upper cover, pictorial endpapers; pp. [xviii] + 246 + [i]; with 12 full-page coloured plates (including frontis) and 2 smaller tipped-in coloured images, together with 14 full-page black-and-white plates and 1 smaller tipped-in monochrome image; drawings throughout in line decorating the text; spine cloth a little rubbed at head and tail, a little rubbing to corners otherwise a very good copy in the scarce pictorial dust wrapper. The wrapper has a little chipping to head of spine otherwise is near-fine. First edition, first issue with the copyright code "D-V". Rarely found with the dust wrapper. Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 â" November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author. He is well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating what has become the modern stereotype of pirate dress. Pyle developed his own ideas for illustrating pirate dress, as few examples existed of authentic pirate outfits and few, if any, drawings had been preserved. He created a flamboyant style incorporating elements of Gypsy dress. His work influenced the design of costumes for movie pirates from Errol Flynn to Johnny Depp. It has been noted as highly impractical for working sailors.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 7 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates by Howard Pyle (of which 12 are in color) on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to. The deluxe edition on Japan vellum of this collection of pirate tales and illustrations by Howard Pyle, compiled by Merle Johnson. Publisher's cloth spine and boards, color plate affixed to front cover. Minor soiling and a few scuffs. Near fine Illustrated with 36 full-page plates by Howard Pyle (of which 12 are in color) on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to First edition, no. 7 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. , 1921.
Price: US$4400.00 + shipping
Description: PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates by Howard Pyle (of which 12 are in color) on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition, no. 7 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Publisher's cloth spine and boards, color plate affixed to front cover. Minor soiling and a few scuffs. Near fine. The deluxe edition on Japan vellum of this collection of pirate tales and illustrations by Howard Pyle, compiled by Merle Johnson.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, an out-of-series copy of the deluxe issue of 50 copies specially printed on Japan vellum, inscribed by Johnson to the designer of the book. This posthumous collection of Pyle's work on pirates celebrates the influence of the artist on our popular imagination, which is still felt today in the mainstream iconography of pirates: David Cordingly names this book as one of the works that "no doubt helped to fix the image in people's minds" of the black flag with the white skull and crossbones. This copy is inscribed by the compiler to the book's designer: "Extra special copy / for A.W. Rushmore / Whose job suits his name / And who gets away with it -- / As this volume - which reflects / his effort as much as mine -- / will testify - Amen -- / Merle Johnson / Aug 22 - 1921." An excellent association. 12.5'' x 9.5''. Original quarter cream cloth, grey paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered in dark grey with full-color pirate vignette tipped onto board and framed by dark grey double-rule, single gilt rule to both boards, all edges uncut. Illustrated by Pyle with 36 full-page tipped-in plates (12 color), three tipped-in vignettes (2 color), and more than two dozen pen-and-ink vignettes throughout text. [2], xviii, 247, [1] pages. Inscribed by Johnson on the limitation page. Light foxing and toning to spine and edges of binding, a bit of rubbing to cover illustration, bumping to corners. Interior a touch toned.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.