Howard Pyle's Book of pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main : from the writing & pictures of Howard Pyle

Date:

©1921

Author:

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH P995 H68 1943 local

Publisher:

Harper & Bros.

Physical Description:

xvii, 208 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:

Special Collections' copy inscribed, 1944. local

Curator Notes:

Harper, c 1921, smaller format reprint, 24cm, 208pp, [Dec. 1943 printing: 'M-S'], inscribed 1944; based on Harper's 1921 large format (31 cm, 246p) edition; includes just 13 of the original 23 illustrated plates; Pyle's writings on pirates compiled posthumously; paper label with color illustration pasted on front cover, spine titles and design printed in black (worn away) on yellow-gray grained cloth

Subjects:

Pirates Fiction and Pirates

Genres/Forms:

Fiction

Geographic Terms:

Spanish Main Fiction and South America Spanish Main