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Aaron Smith Engraving by Eric ravilious. The Atrocities of the Pirates. Golden Cockerel, 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copy 10/500 red and black boards very tight but some pages are uncut at the top
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$221.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in very good condition. Red boards with black spine, gilt lettering on spine. Clean text with tight spine. Foxing to front fly page and rear page, fortunately text is clean. 156pp. Limited edition, 154/500 copies. The text is in the original formatting of the 1824 text. Some chipping to the top and bottom of the spine.
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; VG Hardcover; Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper-covered boards; Light rubbing to head and tail of spine; Bookplate of Robert Mackenzie Waggaman to front pastedown; Text block lightly age-toned; Illustrated with numerous engravings by Eric Ravilious; v, 156 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1349922. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #471). 8vo. v, 156pp. Buckram-backed boards, lettered in gold at the spine with red paper-covered sides. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious, which comprise a frontispiece, two header piece decorations and seven illustrations in the text. The tip of one corner knocked, and with a touch of light chafing to several other extremities. Some browning to the free endpapers, and a tiny pinprick or two of spotting to very occasional fore edge margins. A very good copy of this account of Smith's capture by Cuban pirates and his eventual escape, plus an account of his subsequent Old Bailey trial for piracy (for which he was acquitted); originally printed in 1824 and here splendidly enhanced by these Ravilious engravings (his second Golden Cockerel Press contributions).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The atrocities of the pirates : being a faithful narrative of the umparalleled sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba ; with an account of the excesses and barbarities of those inhuman freebooters, together with a copious and explicit report of his subsequent trial at the Old Bailey. 8vo.,156pp., decorated throughout with engravings by Eric Ravilious. The text is that of the original edition of 1824. Quarter black buckram, spine gilt, scarlet paper-covered boards, t.e.g. Limited Edition #491 of 500 copies.Slight wear to the extremities of the spine. Usual tanning to the endpapers. A very good plus copy.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$506.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire in 1929. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Full black morocco rebinding with five raised bands and gilt titling to the spine. Top edge gilt with others uncut as issued. Striking marbled end-papers. Free from inscriptions. Light spotting to the end-papers and mild toning to the text-block, otherwise internally very clean. 'The atrocities of the pirates : being a faithful narrative of the umparalleled sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba ; with an account of the excesses and barbarities of those inhuman freebooters, together with a copious and explicit report of his subsequent trial at the Old Bailey. The text is that of the original edition of 1824'. This is number 399 of 500 copies issued. 10 striking B/W woodcuts (frontispiece and 9 in-text illustrations) by Eric Ravilious. A handsome rebound copy and an increasingly scarce title. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom