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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. PYLE, Howard (1853-1911). Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates. Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main… Compiled by Merle Johnson. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921.
4to. 12 full-page color plates, 24 black and white plates, 1 black and white tipped-in illustration and 2 color tipped-in illustrations. Original black cloth-backed boards with pictorial label on upper cover (spine a bit sunned, occasional wrinkling in text); original first issue dust jacket (“$5.00”) with publisher’s advertising slip affixed to rear flap, on stiff paper (spine a bit toned); original presentation box with printed paper label on lid (box and label worn, soiled, several joints split, part of the lid on the side is loose, but present).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (“D-V” ON COPYRIGHT PAGE).