The dark frigate : wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by Sea and land fought for the king at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates

Date:

1943, ©1934.

Author:

Hawes, Charles Boardman, 1889-1923.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH H391 D3 1943 LOCAL

Publisher:

Little, Brown

Abstract:

A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.

Physical Description:

247 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Beacon Hill Book Shelf and Beacon Hill Book Shelf.

Notes:

Special Collections' copy inscribed, 1944. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1943 Little, Brown imprint, c 1923 by The Torbell Company (Publishers of The Open Road), c 1923 by The Atlantic Monthly Press, c 1934 by Little, Brown, 8th printing April 1943, inscribed 1944; The Beacon Hill Bookshelf; spine titles and decoration stamped in gold on black cloth, full-size color illustrated label (rubbed) pasted on front cover

Subjects:

Orphans Juvenile fiction, Pirates Juvenile fiction, Orphans, and Pirates

Genres/Forms:

Sea stories, Fiction, Juvenile works, and Sea stories